layer : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: layer	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for layer
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
layer n single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" Synonym(s): layer, bed a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously" Synonym(s): level, layer, stratum a hen that lays eggs thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells v make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Layer \Lay"er\, n. [See {Lay} to cause to lie flat.] 1. One who, or that which, lays. 2. [Prob. a corruption of lair.] That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. 4. An artificial oyster bed.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
layer {protocol layer}