layer

Meanings

• single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
• a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
• an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
  • "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"
• a hen that lays eggs
• thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
• make or form a layer
  • "layer the different colored sands"

Synonyms

bed, level, stratum