Layer and Module

noun

• Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.
  • usage: "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
  • synonyms: bed
• A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another.
• An abstract place usually conceived as having depth.
  • usage: "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
  • synonyms: level, stratum
• A hen that lays eggs.
• Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells.

verb

• Make or form a layer.
  • usage: "layer the different colored sands"

• (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
• (n.) One who or that which, lays.
• (n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks or of plaster; the layers of an onion.
• (n.) An artificial oyster bed.

noun

• One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind.
  • synonyms: faculty, mental faculty
• Detachable compartment of a spacecraft.
• Computer circuit consisting of an assembly of electronic components (as of computer hardware. )
• A self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components. .

• (n.) To model; also, to modulate.
• (n.) The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth or projection.
• (n.) A model or measure.