LAYERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does layered mean? 

• LAYERED (adjective)
  The adjective LAYERED has 1 sense:

1. with one layer on top of another

  Familiarity information: LAYERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAYERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With one layer on top of another

Synonyms:

layered; superimposed

Context example:

superimposed rocks

Similar:

bedded; stratified (deposited or arranged in horizontal layers)

 Context examples 

The epidermis, which provides a protective barrier that undergoes a constant renewal, is a multi-layered tissue with the proliferating cells located in the basal layer.

(Keratinocyte Differentiation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A nanotube consisting of single-walled nanotubes layered inside each other.

(Multi-Walled Nanotube, NCI Thesaurus)

The two chemicals appear to have condensed at the same time to form ice particles, rather than one being layered on top of the other.

(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)

A skin graft sheet composed of viable cells layered on a supporting substrate.

(Cellular Sheet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the Murray Buttes region of lower Mount Sharp.

(Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations, NASA)

"In terms of materials engineering, this work shows that these layered systems could be viable in creating new types of electronic devices that take advantage of these new quantum Hall states."

(Research reveals exotic quantum states in double-layer graphene, National Science Foundation)

The mammary epithelium in the lactiferous duct is a two layered epithelium.

(Mammary Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid dosage form containing medicinal substances that have been compressed to form a multiple-layered tablet or a tablet-within-a-tablet, the inner tablet being the core and the outer portion being the shell.

(Multilayered Tablet Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

These eight scarps, with slopes as steep as 55 degrees, reveal new information about the internal layered structure of previously detected underground ice sheets in Mars' middle latitudes.

(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)

Additionally, unlike Mercury, where the ice has been shown to be nearly pure, the deposits detected on the Moon are most likely mixed with the regolith, possibly in a layered formation.

(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)