Layer
Layer may refer to:
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- A layer of archaeological deposits in an Excavation
- A layer hen, a hen raised to produce eggs
- Layering, a technique for plant propagation
- Layered hair, a popular hair-styling technique
- Layered clothing, the wearing of multiple layers of clothing for practical or fashion purposes
- Layer de la Haye is a village in Essex, England
Fiction
- Layer, a female Maverick Hunter in the Mega Man X series
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Business
- Layer, a San Francisco-based company developing an open layer architecture for Internet communications
Science
- Stratum, a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics
- Thermocline, a layer within a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth
Technology
Computing
- A layer of objects in CAD
- Abstraction layer, a way of hiding the implementation details of a particular set of functionality
- OSI model layers
- Internet protocol suite layers
- 2D computer graphics#Layers, layers in 2D computer graphics
- Layers (digital image editing), used in digital image editing to separate different elements of an image
- Layer (object-oriented design), a group of classes that have the same set of link-time module dependencies to other modules
- Layer element, a deprecated <iframe>-like tag, unique to Netscape 4 browsers
- Map layer: a set of graphical information, especially in geographic information systems
Electronics
- DVD layer, such as in DVD Dual layer recording
- F region, or Appleton Layer (telecommunications)
- Layer (electronics), a single thickness of some material covering a surface
See also
- Layering (disambiguation)
- Layer cake
- Multilevel (disambiguation)