lamination

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English laminate

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English lamination

From laminate + -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌlæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌlæm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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Noun

lamination (countable and uncountable, plural laminations)

1. The process of laminating, joining together thin layers.
2. Something made by laminating.
3. (topology) A foliation of a closed subset of a manifold by subspaces of one dimension less.
4. A layer of something that is laminated.
   • 1960 February, “High-Voltage Electric Locomotive for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 125:

     These screens incorporate a layer of transparent gold film in the laminations which forms an electric heating element to act as de-icer and de-mister.

5. (geology) A small scale sequence of fine layers that occurs in sedimentary rocks.

Derived terms

• delamination
• dyslamination
• interlamination
• microlamination
• multilamination
• nanolamination
• neolamination
• prelamination

Translations

process

• Finnish: laminointi (fi)
• French: laminage (fr) m
• Georgian: ლამინირება (laminireba), ლამინაცია (laminacia)
• German: Laminierung f
• Indonesian: laminasi (id)
• Malay: pelapisan
• Russian: ламини́рование (ru) n (laminírovanije)
• Spanish: laminación (es) f
• Swedish: laminering

product of laminating

• Finnish: laminaatti
• Georgian: ლამინატი (laminaṭi)
• German: Laminat (de) n
• Russian: ламина́т (ru) m (laminát)
• Swedish: laminat (sv)

layer

small scale sequence of fine layers that occurs in sedimentary rocks

• Japanese: 葉理 (ja) (ようり, yōri)

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