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How to pronounce “layer”
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Pronunciation guide for layer
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of layer with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Ravi Bapna & Anindya Ghose
It's layered.
- Definition summary
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce layer
Ravi Bapna & Anindya Ghose

It's layered.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “layer”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- [Verb]
- (ambitransitive) To cut or divide into layers.
- (ambitransitive) To arrange in layers.
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