層 — meaning in English
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English meaning
- layer noun A single thickness of material covering a surface, or one level in a stack of such materials.
- sheaf noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- stratum noun One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
- tier noun One of a series of levels or rows, especially arranged one above another.
Senses
層 is used for these senses in English:
- layer A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- layer A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- sheaf (mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf \mathcal{F} whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover \{U_i \} of U:
- tier A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
layer — full definition
- noun A single thickness of material covering a surface, or one level in a stack of such materials.
- noun A hen kept specifically for producing eggs.
- verb To arrange something in layers.
sheaf — full definition
- noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- noun Any collection of things bound together.
- noun A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- noun A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.