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adjective

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Laminated" Quotes from Famous Books

... told me that he struggled up a church-tower in Florence, a great lean, pale brick minaret, designed, I suppose, to be laminated with marble, but cheerfully abandoned to bareness; he came out on to one of those high balustraded balconies, which in mediaeval pictures seem to have been always crowded with fantastically dressed persons, and are now only visited by tourists. The silvery city lay outspread beneath him, ...

— Joyous Gard • Arthur Christopher Benson

... Some such records still remain, but 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 off ...

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

... round, close-lying waxy leaves; breaths of silvery moss, like a frosty vapor; these flung a grace of lightness over the closer garlanding, and the whole lay upon a bed of exquisitely curled and laminated ...

— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... collected some specimens of the laminated red rock, which had no great crushing resistance when dry. It could be easily powdered under comparatively light pressure, and scratched with no difficulty with one's nails. It was of various densities of red tones, according to the amount of ...

— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... 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 ...

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

... the imaginary toad-stone. The only stone in the above list which has a real existence is that in the fish's head. Fish have a pair of beautiful translucent stones in their heads—the ear-stones or otoliths—by the laminated structure of which we can now determine the age of a fish just as a tree's age is told by the annual rings of growth in the wood of its stem. The fresh-water crayfish has a very curious pair of opaque stones (concretions of carbonate and ...

— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

... of energy to long distances may be successfully carried out transformers are necessary for raising the pressure on the transmission line and for reducing it at the points of distribution. The transformer consists of a magnetic circuit of laminated iron or mild steel interlinked with two electric circuits, one, the primary, receiving electrical energy and the other the secondary, delivering it to the consumer. The effect of the iron is to make as many as possible of the lines ...

— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing