laminate

1. 1.

   a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers

   Broadersheetlamination

   Narrowerplastic laminateplywood

   Partslayer

Other forms of laminate

plural

laminates·

past tense

laminated·

present participle

laminating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laminate

What does laminate mean?

laminate means "create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laminate?

laminate has 3 syllables: lam-i-nate. The stress falls on "lam". In IPA it is /ˈlæmənət/.

Is laminate a common word?

laminate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.