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The art of stacking things so you can blame the bottom one later.
means Distinct stacked levels — of fabric, code, cake, or meaning — each doing a separate job.
from From Old English lecgan, to lay; a layer is simply a thing laid down, one upon the next, since the 1300s.
Onion lawMore layers, more crying, fewer answers.
ComputingThe internet runs on seven stacked abstraction layers.
GeologyRock strata are Earth's layered diary of time.
CookingCroissants hide up to 81 butter-thin layers.