layering

[ ley-er-ing ]

noun

1. the wearing of lightweight or unconstructed garments one upon the other, as to create a fashionable ensemble or to provide warmth without undue bulkiness or heaviness.
2. Tailoring. the trimming of multiple layers of fabric at the seam allowance of a garment so as to prevent a ridge on the face of the garment when the seam is sewn.
3. Horticulture. Also lay·er·age [] a method of propagating plants by causing their shoots to take root while still attached to the parent plant.

layering

/ ˈleɪərɪŋ /

noun

1. horticulture a method of propagation that induces a shoot or branch to take root while it is still attached to the parent plant
2. geology the banded appearance of certain igneous and metamorphic rocks, each band being of a different mineral composition

Word History and Origins

Origin of layering¹

layer + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Other singers from the Master Chorale later joined in and “laid the bricks of a cathedral one at a time,” Gershon said, “layering and combining and building and stacking and removing.”

From Los Angeles Times

More climate-ambitious states are already layering on their own monetary incentives to decarbonize.

From Salon

They can easily get away with layering in this kind of stylistic experimentation because the beats of “Bad Boys” are so familiar — and, as deployed in “Ride or Die,” essentially perfunctory.

From Los Angeles Times

Research teams at Cincinnati Children's have shown other successes at merging and layering organoids from different cell types to form more complex "next generation" organoids.

From Science Daily

The audience snaps and hums, layering their own harmony over the soft whir of the ceiling fan and the cars rushing down North Broadway.

From Los Angeles Times