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  • noun A layer underneath another
  • noun A subunit of a layer

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Examples

  • The cover is shaped to resemble a precious stone, with the Acer logo floating on a polished midnight sapphire sublayer.

    Midnight Sideshow | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • So yes, those wars were fought for American geopolitical and economic interests but there was also a sublayer of reasoning for them, one of which would include freeing an oppressed people or stopping the spread of that oppression.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Like the northern continental interior, the tundra has a permanently frozen sublayer of soil known as permafrost.

    Tundra Division (Bailey) 2009

  • So yes, those wars were fought for American geopolitical and economic interests but there was also a sublayer of reasoning for them, one of which would include freeing an oppressed people or stopping the spread of that oppression.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The claims at issue are not directed to a composition; they are directed to a process for forming a sublayer from known ingredients . . .

    Doctrine of Inherency Causes Stir at the CAFC Peter Zura 2007

  • The role of scale, heterogeneity, dynamic source areas for turbulent fluxes and the complexity introduced by the roughness sublayer over the tall, rigid roughness elements of cities is described.

    Parker 2006: An Urban Myth? « Climate Audit 2007

  • The claims at issue are not directed to a composition; they are directed to a process for forming a sublayer from known ingredients . . .

    Archive 2007-04-01 Peter Zura 2007

  • It is not disputed that such a sublayer does not form under the conditions in the CKD patent application.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Peter Zura 2007

  • It is not disputed that such a sublayer does not form under the conditions in the CKD patent application.

    Doctrine of Inherency Causes Stir at the CAFC Peter Zura 2007

  • Ixia's "K2" 40 and 100GE IP network traffic generator and physical coding sublayer (PCS) measurement and analysis solution generates and analyzes full 40GE and 100GE layer 1-7 line rate traffic, with up to 1 million distinct flows per port.

    BN - Broadcast Newsroom-news 2010

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