concentric layers

collocation in English

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concentric
adjective
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/kənˈsen.trɪk/us
/kənˈsen.trɪk/
Concentric circles and rings have the ...
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layer
noun[C]
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/ˈleɪ.ər/us
/ˈleɪ.ɚ/
a level of material, such as a type of rock or gas, that is different from the material above or below it, or a thin sheet of ...
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In brain, the glial filaments are present in close apposition to the cyst wall and arranged around cysts in aconcentriclayer, measuring 5-10 m in thickness.
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The concentric spherical shells, the so called "onions," constitute a form of carbon consisting of spherical concentric layers of carbon shells.
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The flesh of the fungus is purple, brown, or silvery-black inside, and is arranged in concentric layers.
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The fort was designed to be surrounded by three concentric layers of walls and its four corners were built into protruding bastions for better defense.
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Red giants all have inert cores with hydrogen-burning shells: concentric layers atop the core that are still fusing hydrogen into helium.
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This rock is filled with nodules of black mica and quartz, in concentric layers.
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Manganese nodules are rock concretions on the sea bottom formed of concentric layers of iron and manganese hydroxides around a core.
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Accretionary lapilli are like volcanic hailstones that form by the addition of concentric layers of moist ash around a central nucleus.
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And drumlins usually have concentric layers of material, as the ice successively plasters new layers in its movement.
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In the former case they have thin concentric layers, and in the latter they have radiating sprays of crystals.
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Upon this was placed a circular-stepped mass of concrete, thick, built in 4 concentric layers.
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These fields comprised two concentric layers, one excitatory and the other inhibitory.
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Concentric layers of this material would be stacked, each layer separated by an elastic medium.
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Bathukamma is a beautiful flower stack, arranged with seasonal flowers, in seven concentric layers, of potters clay like a cone.
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They are generally characterized by concentric layers of spongin fibers, and large flagellated chambers that open directly into the exhalant canals.
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Cave pearls are formed by a concretion of calcium salts that form concentric layers around a nucleus.
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The granite then erodes in concentric layers (similar to how an onion peels) forming rounded masses called exfoliation domes.
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Basins appear on a geologic map as roughly circular or elliptical, with concentric layers.
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These grains are approximately spherical and have concentric layers reaching 10 mm in diameter.
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When saprolite is exposed by physical erosion, these concentric layers peel (spall) off as concentric shells much like the layers of a peeled onion.
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