successive layer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsuccessiveandlayer
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successive
adjective[before noun]
uk/səkˈses.ɪv/us/səkˈses.ɪv/
happening one after the other without ...
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layer
noun[C]
uk/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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(Definition ofsuccessiveandlayerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Eachsuccessivelayerwill have one or two strands of barbed wire placed on top.
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The artist may apply several layers of paint with increasing amounts of oil added to eachsuccessivelayer.
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The angle of eachsuccessivelayeras we move downward through the spiral depends on the strength and vertical distribution of the vertical eddy viscosity.
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Eachsuccessivelayerof pigment spreads slightly less than the last, and the colors may require additional surfactant to float and uniformly expand.
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Successive layers above it have decreasing densities.
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It was comparatively inactive, preferring instead to act through the agency of less permanent sheaths which surrounded it in successive layers.
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The procedure was repeated as necessary, to progressively expose successive layers.
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This was the case in each of 30 nuclei identified in successive layers.
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The procedure was repeated as many times as necessary, to progressively expose and view successive layers, until the specimen was ashed away.
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On top of the "avoid objects" layer there can be successive layers determining behaviours referred to as "wander", "explore" and "build maps".
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The successive layers of celebration and reinterpretation provide a daunting task of interpretation for sociologists and historians of all stripes.
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Gas diffusion occurs between successive layers.
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Melikoff approaches it as an archaeological undertaking, one that involves the excavation of successive layers of influence, borrowing, and adaptation.
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To analyse all of those is rather like peeling an onion, revealing successive layers as our debate proceeds.
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He sits surrounded by the wreckage of successive layers of his policy.
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It took a good many generations to pile up those successive layers with discards from shellfish dinners.
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For a more diffuse surface, a continuous growth mechanism may require change over several successive layers simultaneously.
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Some times they constructed of the trunks of trees in successive layers, crossing each other and compacted by earth rammed between the intervals.
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The successive layers of color are then applied in transparent glaze or semi-transparent layers.
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