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Meaning of layer

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  layer
      n 1: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
           "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn:
           {layer}, {bed}]
      2: a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or
         under another
      3: 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" [syn: {level}, {layer}, {stratum}]
      4: a hen that lays eggs
      5: thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
      v 1: make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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