Crossword clues for layering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Layering \Lay"er*ing\, n.
A propagating by layers.
--Gardner.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A structure made up of layers. 2 A method of plant propagation by rooting cuttings. vb. (present participle of layer English)
Wikipedia
Layering is a means of plant propagation in which a portion of an aerial stem grows roots while still attached to the parent plant and then detaches as an independent plant. Layering has evolved as a common means of vegetative propagation of numerous species in natural environments. Layering is also utilized by horticulturists to propagate desirable plants.
Natural layering typically occurs when a branch touches the ground, whereupon it produces adventitious roots. At a later stage the connection with the parent plant is severed and a new plant is produced as a result.
The horticultural layering process typically involves wounding the target region to expose the inner stem and optionally applying rooting compounds. In ground layering, the stem is bent down and the target region buried in the soil. This is done in plant nurseries in imitation of natural layering by many plants such as brambles which bow over and touch the tip on the ground, at which point it grows roots and, when separated, can continue as a separate plant. In either case, the rooting process may take from several weeks to a year.
Layering is more complicated than taking cuttings, but has the advantage that the propagated portion continues to receive water and nutrients from the parent plant while it is forming roots. This is important for plants that form roots slowly, or for propagating large pieces. Layering is used quite frequently in the propagation of bonsai; it is also used as a technique for both creating new roots and improving existing roots.
Layering in linguistics refers to one of the five principles by which you can detect grammaticalisation while it is taking place. The other four are: divergence, specialisation, persistence, and de-categorialisation.
Layering refers to the phenomenon that a language can have and develop multiple expressions for the same function, that language, in the “ lexical” as well as in the “ grammatical” domain, tolerates and permanently creates multiple synonymy. “Within a broad functional domain, new layers are continually emerging. As this happens, the older layers are not necessarily discarded, but may remain to coexist with and interact with the newer layers.” ( Hopper 1991: 22)
During the process of grammaticalisation, new layers are added to older ones whereby the functional domain is broadened, i.e. several items may fulfil the same linguistic function.
An example from English: ‘I am going to study’ / ‘I will study’ / ‘I shall study’.
Layering is placing one thing on top of another.
- Layering of plants
- Where one network protocol layer provides service for higher layers
- Layered clothing, wearing layers of lightweight garments for warmth without bulk
- Layering (finance), a strategy in high frequency trading
- Layering (tailoring), method of trimming fabric to prevent bulky seams
- A step in the process of money laundering.
- Music: Combining multiple instruments and/or voices into one composition.
Layering is a strategy in high-frequency trading where a trader makes and then cancels orders that they never intend to have executed in hopes of influencing the stock price. For instance, to buy stock at a lower price, the trader initially places orders to sell at or above the market ask price. This may cause the market's best ask price to fall as other market participants lower their asking prices because they perceive selling pressure as they see the sell orders being entered on the order book. The trader may place subsequent sell orders for the security at successively lower prices as the best ask price falls (to increase the appearance of selling interest). After the price has fallen sufficiently, the trader makes a real trade, buying the stock at the now lower best ask price, and cancels all the sell orders. It is considered a form of stock market manipulation.
Usage examples of "layering".
It was more likely a sill or laccolith, which ran with the grain of sedimentary layering rather than against it.
It was unlikely that this was a very remarkable meteoroid, though its cross-section had a curious, all-around layering, rather like the annual rings of a tree branch.
Considering the time of year it was and the expectable atmospheric conditions, the day was mysteriously, even miraculously, bright and clear: atmospheric photochemical intensity way down, fog ditto, and patches of blue skyalmost blue, anywayshowing through behind the inescapable striped layerings of vividly colored greenhouse goop and the usual baleful white backdrop.
As she ran down the hallway, the images became stranger and stranger, layering eons of decay and abuse on a man who had been alive and with her only six hours previously.
In particular, once diamond layering begins, the coat seems to bind durably with the metal beneath, and then form intact crystals above.
Below the first couple of feet of surface, the layerings and grain alignments are characteristic of cementing by finer binding particles under the action of fluids, not wind deposition.
Often her efforts took on a strangely surreal quality, as if she wandered back and forth through time as well as space, crossing and recrossing the myriad layerings of the universe on some curious quest whose meaning she only vaguely understood.
I research in the depth of old holographs and contemplate the layerings of ancient galaxies.
Some unknown length of time later--it couldn’t have been longer than five or ten minutes, I suppose, but it seemed like forever--I saw the bridge through layerings of leaves and firs.
Patiently, the robot added to what his student already knew, Layering data into the young human's mind in such a fashion that he would be able to retrieve it quickly in the form of organic memory.
Patiently, the robot added to what his student already knew, layering data into the young human's mind in such a fashion that he would be able to retrieve it quickly in the form of organic memory.