lamellar
Americanadjective
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noting a type of armor composed of small plates or lames laced together.
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Mathematics. conservative.
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NCM is a mixed oxide containing nickel, cobalt, and manganese in a lamellar structure.
From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2024
Moreover, because the dC5 MFI nanosheets are made by direct synthesis, they do not suffer from the fragmentation caused during exfoliation of the lamellar precursors.
From Nature • Mar. 14, 2017
Grumbles from trucks and cabs would shudder through the toxic ground, tickle the lamellar corpuscles in your feet and ricochet up your bones.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2017
I have lamellar ichthyosis, a genetic disorder which manifests itself in scales not just on my face, arms, hands — which she could see — but over my whole body.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2016
Di�allage, an altered form of the mineral augite, with a lamellar structure, and a submetallic lustre on its planes of separation.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
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