laminar en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈlæmɪnə/
Etymology
From Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of material”) + English -ar.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of fluid motion, smooth and regular, flowing as though in different layers.
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: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:
- (not-comparable) In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers. ▸ In the form of thin flat electronic circuits, usually flexible
- (not-comparable) In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers. ▸ Describing the layer of capillaries in the choroid of the eye
Deriveds
supralaminar · trilaminar · laminar flow hood · spinolaminar · semilaminar · sublaminar · laminary · basolaminar · plurilaminar · laminarite · prelaminar · colaminar · laminarize · multilaminar · unilaminar · laminarity · translaminar · paralaminar · bilaminar · laminar flow · laminarise · laminarly · intralaminar · nonlaminar · laminarization · hexalaminar · postlaminar · quadrilaminar · extralaminar · interlaminar · retrolaminar · pentalaminar
Relateds
Translations (4)
es laminar (of fluid motion, smooth and regular) · bg ламинарен (of fluid motion, smooth and regular) · el ελασματώδης (of fluid motion, smooth and regular) · fi laminaarinen (of fluid motion, smooth and regular)