Lamina vs Wafer - What's the difference?
lamina | wafer | Related terms |
A very thin layer of material.
(anatomy) A thin plate or scale, such as the arch of a vertebra.
(botany) The flat part of a leaf or leaflet; the blade.
A light, thin, flat biscuit.
(religion) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 202:
(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
Lamina is a related term of wafer.
As nouns the difference between lamina and wafer
is that lamina is lamina while wafer is wafer.lamina
English
Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (very thin layer of material) sheet * (flat part of a leaf) bladeDerived terms
* laminar * laminal * laminate * laminectomy * laminotomyAnagrams
* * * * * * ----wafer
English
Noun
(en noun)- The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.