[f. LAMINATE v.: see -ATION.]
1. The action of laminating or beating metal into thin plates. rare–0. b. ‘In Midwifery, applied to the method of reducing the size of the skull in embryotomy by cutting it into slices’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1888).
1676. Coles, Lamination, a beating into a Lamina.
2. The condition of being laminated; arrangement in laminæ; laminated structure. Also concr. in pl. laminæ.
1830. Lyell, Princ. Geol., I. 205. The lamination of some of the concentric masses of San Filippo is so minute, that sixty may be counted in the thickness of an inch.
1845. Todd & Bowman, Phys. Anat., I. 120. The lamination of bone.
1858. Geikie, Hist. Boulder, xi. 226. A few thin laminations of coal.
1850. Tyndall, Glac., I. xxi. 148. Near to the moraine … a magnificent lamination was developed.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 53. Its grey matter however is considerable in quantity, owing to its transverse lamination.
