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laminated adj.

Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, sheets, scales, or layers, one over another; laminate.

Hence: Constructed of thin sheets of material, bonded together to form a composite structure having multiple layers.

Laminated arch (Arch.), a timber arch made of layers of bent planks secured by treenails.

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Etymology of 'Laminated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Laminated" Quotes from Famous Books

... orbit is extremely small, the temporal fossa large, and the zygomatic processes of the squamosal are greatly developed. From the outer edge of the ascending plates of the maxillae, which lie over the frontals, great crests of bone, smooth externally, but reticulated and laminated on their inner surface, rise upwards, and, curving inwards, nearly meet in the middle line above the upper part ...

— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... represented by the Old Red Sandstone seems, in what now forms the northern half of Scotland, to have opened amid confusion and turmoil. The finely laminated Tilestones of England were deposited evidently in a calm sea. During the contemporary period the space which now includes Orkney, Lochness, Dingwall, Gamrie, and many a thousand square miles besides, was the scene of a shallow ocean, perplexed by powerful ...

— The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science • Various

... approaching granite in composition, but more or less laminated, and really produced by the alteration of a sedimentary ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... intermediate gradation, from perfectly loose sand to the hardest sandstone. In MICACEOUS SANDSTONES mica is very abundant; and the thin silvery plates into which that mineral divides are often arranged in layers parallel to the planes of stratification, giving a slaty or laminated texture to the rock. ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... magnifying power that may be thought desirable. A thin slice of the fur of a kettle might be made in the same way. If it were examined microscopically, it would show itself to be a more or less distinctly laminated ...

— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... Codiss moved on from display case to display case, each of which showed another kind of pod cut in half. The interiors were all different and all complicated... Membranes with a faint, metallic sheen—laminated or separated by narrow air spaces as in a capacitor, for instance... Balls of massed fibre, glinting... Curious, spiral formations ...

— The Planet Strappers • Raymond Zinke Gallun

... many have doubtless perished, for the material is only the soft freestone so easily obtainable in the district, and the rains and frosts of no great number of years have sufficed to obliterate all such shallow carvings; the surfaces of the laminated rock being even now in process of peeling ...

— In Search Of Gravestones Old And Curious • W.T. (William Thomas) Vincent

... "(4) Somewhat laminated quartz from Victoria, containing a little antimony sulphide. In this specimen the gold not only shows on the surface but penetrates each of the laminations, as is ...

— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson