A layer is the following:

• A layer can be a clonal offspring in the plant nursery business, produced by a reproductive technique known as layering.
• Dual layer recording for DVD
• Layers in 2D computer graphics
• In abstraction, a layer is an abstract place conceived as having depth.
• In archaeology, a layer is a body of soil-material, often containing artefacts, deposited at the same time. See stratigraphy.
• In computer programming a layer is (also) an abstraction of the type of a stack frame of a run-time call stack of a thread.
• In object-oriented design a layer is a group of classes that have the same set of (link-time) module dependencies to other modules, i.e. a collection of reusable components that are available for reuse in similar circumstances.
• In Submarine Warfare it refers to thermocline.
• In telecommunications a layer is an F region.
• In telecommunications networks and open systems architecture (for example, the OSI model) a layer is a group of related functions that are performed in a given level in a hierarchy of groups of related functions.
• In web design, <layer> was a <div>-like tag, unique to Netscape browsers. It has been deprecated and fallen out of use.
• Layer de la Haye is a village in Essex, United Kingdom.

Layer | Capa (desambiguación)