laminable

English

Etymology

lamina +‎ -able

Adjective

laminable (comparative more laminable, superlative most laminable)

  1. Capable of being split into laminae, or thin plates.
    Mica is laminable.
    • Ure
      When a body can be readily extended in all directions under the hammer, it is said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be laminable.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for laminable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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