laminar
adj/ˈlæmɪnə/
Etymology From Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of material”) + English -ar.
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Of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers.
- On the wall, in an ornate fixture of darkening bronze, a gas jet burned, laminar and gently singing — adjusted to what scientists of the last century called a "sensitive flame": invisible at the base, as it issues from the orifice, fading upward into smooth blue light that hovers several inches above...1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- The laminar bands of color to the west bleeding out under the hammered clouds. A sudden violet-colored hooding of the earth.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:
› In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.
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Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics In the form of thin flat electronic circuits, usually flexible
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basolaminar, bilaminar, colaminar, extralaminar, hexalaminar, interlaminar, intralaminar, laminar flow, laminar flow hood, laminarise, laminarite, laminarity, laminarization, laminarize, laminarly, laminary, multilaminar, nonlaminar, paralaminar, pentalaminar, plurilaminar, postlaminar, prelaminar, quadrilaminar, retrolaminar, semilaminar, spinolaminar, sublaminar, supralaminar, translaminar, trilaminar, unilaminar- Related terms
- laminal