ppl. a. [f. LAMINATE v. + -ED1.] Consisting of, arranged in, or furnished with laminæ; formed or manufactured in a succession of layers of material, as some metallic objects, etc. In armor (see quot. 1869).
Laminated tubercle: the nodule of the cerebellum (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1888).
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., II. iii. § 2. 61. [Stones] of a laminated figure, either natural, or factitious.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 71. Those [lumps of pyrites] from Clifton aforesaid seem to be laminated.
1768. Pennant, Zool., I. Pref. 4. The laminated lead ore of Lord Hoptoun’s mines.
1794. Sullivan, View Nat., II. 332. Crystals and gems … are all found to be of a foliated or laminated structure.
1833. Lyell, Princ. Geol., III. 78. Volcanic tuff thinly laminated.
1851. Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib., 311. Section of rail and laminated beam.
1851. Richardson, Geol., viii. 230. They respire by laminated branchiæ.
1858. Greener, Gunnery, 222. A laminated steel barrel has never been known to burst.
1869. Boutell, Arms & Arm., iii. 51. laminated corslets … of iron or steel—corslets, that is, formed of rows of metal scales sewn upon garments of leather or linen, in such a manner that the scales in each row would overlap those in the row below them.
1872. Huxley, Phys., xi. 262. Overhanging the fourth ventricle is a great laminated mass, the cerebellum.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., Laminated Arch, a timber arch made of successive thicknesses of planking bent on to a centreing and secured together by tree-nails.
