Definition of Layers

1. Noun. (plural of layer) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of layer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Layers

1. layer [v] - See also: layer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Layers

layed up
layer
layer cake
layer of Bechterew
layer of piriform neurons
layer of rods and cones
layerage
layerages
layered
layered closure
layered intrusion
layered intrusions
layeredness
layering
layerings
layers (current term)
layers of cerebellar cortex
layers of cerebral cortex
layers of retina
layers of skin
layerwise
layest
layeth
layette
layettes
layin
layin'
laying
laying bare
laying claim

Literary usage of Layers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"Stratified epithelial layers are composed of all the three forms. ... In places where two stratified epithelia] layers come in contact, there is often found ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"Duclaux then proceeds to give the results of his analyses of the two layers, as well as other results and discussions. This account has been universally ..."

3. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"As the outer and inner layers are derived from the hypo- derm s, this layer will be ... The hypodermis is a portion of one of the germ-layers, the ectoderm. ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"Lewis, in 1876, described five layers as the type for the motor area and six ... Major in the same year, 1876, described six layers as the common type, ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"Lewis, in 1876, described five layers as the type for the motor area and six ... Major in the same year, 1876, described six layers as the common type, ..."

6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1870)
"The deep perineal fascia consists of two layers, anterior and posterior ; these are separated above, but united below. ^The posterior layer is derived from ..."

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