lamellar

English

Etymology

Compare French lamellaire.

Adjective

lamellar (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a lamella, plate-like, flat and thin.
   • 2002, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J. LaRocca, Morihiro Ogawa, Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions, 1991-2002, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 45:

     Like scale armor (see cat, no. 38), lamellar armor was widely used in the ancient world, possibly originating in the Near East and spreading rapidly throughout Asia. Lamellar differs from scale armor in two principal ways.

   • 2006, Donald J. LaRocca, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 51:

     The term “lamellar armor” refers to a type of armor made up of horizontal rows of small overlapping plates joined by leather lacing. The individual plates are referred to as lamella (singular) and lamellae (plural), literally meaning thin plates or ...

Derived terms

• bilamellar
• epilamellar
• fibrolamellar
• interlamellar
• lamellar face
• lamellar granule
• lamellarity
• lamellar trama
• lamellary
• multilamellar
• nanolamellar
• nonlamellar
• oligolamellar
• prolamellar
• unilamellar

 

Related terms

• lame (“thin plate”)
• lamellate (adj)
• lamellation
• lamina
• laminate
• laminated
• lamination

 

Translations

Of or pertaining to a lamella

• Bulgarian: пластинчат (plastinčat)