Layer

Layer or layered may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Layers (Kungs album)
• Layers (Les McCann album)
• Layers (Royce da 5′9″ album)
• “Layers”, the title track of Royce da 5′9″’s sixth studio album
• Layer, a female Maverick Hunter in the Mega Man X series
• Layer, an element in a digital painting
• Layer (film), a 2022 Russian film
• LAYER, the stage name of Rei Wakana, a fictional character from BanG Dream!
• Layer, a zone in the Underground World in Donkey Kong Bananza

Science

• Stratum, a layer of rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics
• Thermocline, a layer within a body of water where the temperature changes rapidly with depth
• Layer, an area in the neocortex with specific structure and connection pattern among neurons

Technology

Computing

• Layer (object-oriented design), a group of classes that have the same set of link-time module dependencies to other modules
• Layers (digital image editing), used in digital image editing to separate different elements of an image
• Layers, in 2D computer graphics
• Abstraction layer, a way of hiding the implementation details of a particular set of functionality
  • Internet protocol suite layers
  • OSI model layers
• Layer element, a deprecated <iframe>-like tag, unique to Netscape 4 browsers
• Layer of objects, a term in CAD
• Map layer, a set of graphical information, especially in geographic information systems
• Layer (deep learning), a structure in the architecture of a deep learning model, which take information from the previous layers and then pass information to the next layer

Electronics

• Layer (electronics), a single thickness of some material covering a surface
• Dual layer recording, a DVD layer
• F region, or Appleton Layer in telecommunications

Other uses

• Layer, a tier of archaeological deposits in an excavation
• Layer hen, a hen raised to produce eggs
• Layer cake, a cake consisting of stacked layers
• Layered, Inc., an American software company
• Layered clothing, the wearing of multiple layers of clothing for practical or fashion purposes
• Layered hair, a popular hair-styling technique
• Walter Francis Layer (1907-1965), American politician and U.S. Marine Corps colonel

See also

• Layering (disambiguation)
• Multilevel (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Layer
• All pages with titles containing Layer