单词 | lamina |
释义 | laminan. a. A thin plate, scale, layer, or flake (of metal, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > thin plate or layer foil?c1390 spelt?a1400 leafc1475 lamin1489 lamea1586 shell1585 lamina1656 lamel1676 lamella1678 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > [noun] > layer lamin1489 lamina1656 ply1901 lamination1905 laminate1968 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > thin lamina1656 rime1694 floathing1743 folia1794 flash1909 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Lamina, a thin plate of any mettal, most commonly such as Sculpters use to engrave upon. 1670 J. Beale in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1159 'Tis..full of very small and thin Laminæ, seeming to be Metalline, and bright like the purest Silver. 1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. 122 I think it easiest to consider Elastic, Springing, or Resilient Bodies, as Laminæ, Laths, or Lines. 1709 F. Hauksbee Physico-mech. Exper. Suppl. (1719) 329 Pieces of Brass Laminæ, whose Thickness when laid one upon another,..made a Distance between the Planes equal to 1/ 16 of an inch. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 98 This bark is composed of several laminæ. 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. iii. 35 Many small broken laminæ of the coagulable lymph. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 63 Lead..may be reduced into laminæ and plates thinner than paper. 1832 W. Gell Pompeiana II. xiii. 22 The chamber was covered with laminæ of rare marbles. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxi. 148 At some places the ice had been weathered into laminæ not more than a line in thickness. b. Anatomy, etc. A thin layer of bone, membrane, or other structure. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > part of body > [noun] > thin layer of bone, membrane, or other structure lamina1706 Haversian lamella1848 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) In Anatomy, Laminæ are the Plates or Tables of the Scull, two in number. 1815 W. Phillips Outl. Mineral. & Geol. (1818) 105 These shells..are..extremely brittle, and readily separate into laminæ. 1831 W. Youatt Horse xiii. 253 (caption) The horny laminæ [of the foot]. 1864 E. Mayhew Illustr. Horse Managem. 95 The laminæ, or the highly-sensitive covering of the internal foot, secrete the inward layer of horn. 1872 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 6) vii. 183 The middle and longest lamina in the Greenland whale is ten, twelve, or even fifteen feet in length. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 35 A superior broad and flat portion called the neural lamina. c. Geology. The thinnest separable layer in stratified rock deposits. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > thin layer > [noun] flake1577 lamina1794 stratulum1797 sheet1815 sheeting1891 spread1893 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 421 In caverns and fissures laminæ of spar..crystallize in various forms. 1849 R. I. Murchison Siluria vii. 129 The laminæ of deposit being marked by layers of shells and corals. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 6 The finer beds of clay or sand will all be arranged in thicker or thinner layers or laminæ. d. Botany (a) A thin ‘plate’ of tissue, as in the ‘gill’ of a mushroom. (b) The blade, ‘limb’, or expanded portion of a leaf. (c) The (usually widened) upper part or ‘limb’ of a petal. (d) The expanded part of the thallus or frond in algæ, etc. ΚΠ 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. iii. 7 Lamina, a thin Plate, which is the upper Part, and usually spreading. 1776–96 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 393 The 2 lamina [sic] or plates which constitute each gill. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 153 Leaves radical, with a hollow urn-shaped petiole, at the apex of which is articulated the lamina. 1861 M. C. Cooke Man. Struct. Bot. (1893) 63 The upper or free portion [of a petal] is called the lamina or limb. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 296 A cellular lamina or a mass of tissue which fixes itself by root-hairs and produces the thallus by growth at its apex. e. Kinematics. ΚΠ 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. II. viii. vi. 331 Any combination of rods, strings, and laminæ. 1878 J. Wolstenholme Math. Probl. (ed. 2) 416 A lamina moves in its own plane so that two fixed points of it describe straight lines with accelerations f, f′. 1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 39 The locus traced out in the body..is a circle concentric with the lamina. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656 |
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