English Dictionary: Lamina | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for Lamina | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Lamina \Lam"i*na\ (l[acr]m"[icr]*n[adot]), n.; pl. L. {Lamin[91]} (-n[emac]) E. {Laminas} (-n[adot]z). [L. cf. {Lamella}.] 1. A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals. 2. (Bot.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower. --Gray. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A thin plate or scale; specif., one of the thin, flat processes composing the vane of a feather. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
LAMINA A {concurrent} {object-oriented} language. ["Experiments with a Knowledge-based System on a Multiprocessor", Third Intl Conf Supercomputing Proc, 1988]. ["ELINT in LAMINA, Application of a Concurrent Object language", Delagi et al, KSL-88-3, Knowledge Sys Labs, Stanford U]. |