plywood

n. board made from compressed wood chips; laminated wood

Plywood was the first type of engineered wood to be invented. It is made from thin sheets of wood veneer, called plies or veneers. The layers are glued together, each with its grain at right angles to adjacent layers for strength. There are usually an odd number of plies, so that the grain on the outside plies runs in the same direction. The plies are bonded under heat and pressure with strong adhesives, usually phenol formaldehyde resin, making plywood a type of composite material. A common reason for using plywood instead of plain wood is its resistance to cracking, shrinkage, twisting/warping, and its general high degree of strength. It has replaced many dimensional lumbers on construction applications for these reasons.
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Noun
1. a laminate made of thin layers of wood
(synonym) plyboard
(hypernym) laminate

Synonyms and related words:
beam, billet, board, boarding, clapboard, coat, coating, collop, cord, cordwood, covering, cut, deal, disk, driftwood, feuille, film, firewood, flap, foil, fold, hardwood, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath, lathing, lathwork, leaf, log, lumber, membrane, pane, panel, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, patina, peel, pellicle, plait, plank, planking, plate, plating, ply, plyboard, pole, post, puncheon, rasher, safety glass, scum, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheet, sheeting, shingle, sideboard, siding, skin, slab, slat, slice, softwood, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, table, tablet, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, two-by-four, veneer, wafer, weatherboard, wood
  

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