layer
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(verb) make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands" |
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Related Words: form |
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(noun) thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells |
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Related Words: anatomical structure, blastoderm, blastodisc, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, germinal area, germinal disc, hypodermis, structure |
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(noun) a single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance |
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Related Words: backing, blanket, course, flat solid, interlayer, mount, ply, row, sheet, tier |
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(noun) a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another |
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Related Words: Earth's crust, Earth's surface, asthenosphere, crust, exosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, lower mantle, mantle, mesosphere, ozone layer, part, region, snow, stratosphere, stratum, surface, thermosphere, tropopause, troposphere, upper mantle |
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