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- noun Plural form of
lamella .
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The newest versions of the adhesive, developed in 2009, have a two-layer system that mimics the gecko's flap like ridges, called lamellae, and setae.
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These are then arranged in layers referred to as lamellae and bound together by cross linking glycans.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JamesRi 2010
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These are then arranged in layers referred to as lamellae and bound together by cross linking glycans.
Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] JamesRi 2010
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As you can also see in the picture of V. moulinsiana on this page, the aperture of that species and those of most other Vertigos are rather cluttered by the various folds and lamellae inside, usually referred to as the teeth.
Which came first, the snail or the egg? AYDIN 2008
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As you can also see in the picture of V. moulinsiana on this page, the aperture of that species and those of most other Vertigos are rather cluttered by the various folds and lamellae inside, usually referred to as the teeth.
Archive 2008-07-01 AYDIN 2008
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Hence, after development, the photographic layer contained some twenty or more lamellae of silver grains with different periods for different colors in the image.
Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging 2005
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Paramastus spratti, which lacks any prominent lamellae or "teeth" in its aperture, has a straight columella.
Land snails of Turkey: Paramastus spratti AYDIN 2007
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Into the direction from which the standing wave pattern had been generated, the scattered light fields having the same wavelength as the period of the lamellae will be in phase, interfere constructively, and together create
Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging 2005
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Certain elegant insects and butterflies have created such periodic lamellae without having been taught the optics of scattering or diffraction.
Lippmann's and Gabor's Revolutionary Approach to Imaging 2005
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These whales have enormously muscular tongues, which press the water through the whalebone lamellae and thus, by a filtering process, retain the small food organisms.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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