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Lamination

Lamination \Lam`i*na"tion\, n. The process of laminating, or the state of being laminated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lamination

"any layer of laminated substance," 1670s, noun of state from laminate. Meaning "process of manufacturing laminated products" is from 1945.

Wiktionary
lamination

n. 1 The process of laminate, joining together thin layers. 2 Something made by laminate. 3 (context topology English) A foliation of a closed subset of a manifold by subspaces of one dimension less. 4 A layer of something that is laminate. 5 (context geology English) A small scale sequence of fine layers that occurs in sedimentary rocks.

WordNet
lamination
  1. n. a layered structure

  2. bonding thin sheets together

Wikipedia
Lamination

Lamination is the technique of manufacturing a material in multiple layers, so that the composite material achieves improved strength, stability, sound insulation, appearance or other properties from the use of differing materials. A laminate is a permanently assembled object by heat, pressure, welding, or adhesives.

Lamination (topology)

In topology, a branch of mathematics, a lamination is a :

  • "A topological space partitioned into subsets"
  • decoration (a structure or property at a point) of a manifold in which some subset of the manifold is partitioned into sheets of some lower dimension, and the sheets are locally parallel.

A lamination of a surface is a partition of a closed subset of the surface into smooth curves.

It may or may not be possible to fill the gaps in a lamination to make a foliation.

Lamination (geology)

In geology, lamination is a small scale sequence of fine layers (so called laminae) that occurs in sedimentary rocks. Laminations are normally smaller and less pronounced than bedding. Lamination is often regarded as planar structures one centimetre or less in thickness, whereas bedding layers are greater than one centimetre. However, structures from several millimetres to many centimetres have been described as laminae. A single sedimentary rock can have both laminae and beds.

Usage examples of "lamination".

A long dead console television sat across the room from an equally ancient Hammond organ whose fake wood-grain lamination was separating from the particleboard beneath it.

Heboric hated this place, with all its spectral laminations of failure, of worlds long extinct.

Offset slices of time lay side by side here like laminations of plywood and she was forever unreachable because she was on the other side of one thin, unshatterable pane of it.

I depended on it and believed in it, though the laminations were beginning to tire a little, letting a few fiber glass splinters half-rise from the edges of the upper limb.

Waters answered, and an incomprehensible conversation followed involving tillering and laminations, hotboxes and clamps, hand shock and finger pinch.

Damascening glinted on the lames, studded metal roses were connected by riveted laminations to shoulder, elbow, and knee and adorned the breastplate.

The off-red phenolic plastic and heavy hilt, the top half covered with a lamination of black rubber, identified the knife as a bayonet.

So she accepted the cannister Jess tipped into her hand, worked the tape free with the help of her pocket knife, and pulled out a much-folded and rolled but well-preserved piece of paper, printed on both sides in various fonts and then covered with clear packing tape in crude lamination.