layer

noun

A single thickness of some material covering a surface.

An item of clothing worn under or over another.

A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.

(computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.

One of the items in a hierarchy.

A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.

A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.

A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.

A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

(networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.

(computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.

A surname.

verb

(ambitransitive) To cut or divide into layers.

(ambitransitive) To arrange in layers.

Synonyms for layer

stratumn tropopausen

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