资料来源 : pyDict
层,阶层;铺设者,敷设机;瞄准手;生蛋的鸡 ; (通过将通信工作分成不同层次,使各种机器不同的传输媒介能够综合在同一个网络上,彼此能够互相沟通)
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Layer \Lay"er\, n. [See {Lay} to cause to lie flat.]
1. One who, or that which, lays.
2. [Prob. a corruption of lair.] That which is laid; a
stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over
another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a
layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock,
laid under ground for growth or propagation.
4. An artificial oyster bed.
资料来源 : WordNet®
layer
n 1: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;
"slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: {bed}]
2: a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or
under another
3: an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good
actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at
least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many
strata simultaneously" [syn: {level}, {stratum}]
4: a hen that lays eggs
5: thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
v : make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
layer
{protocol layer}