a small thin piece of material that resembles an animal scale
the gemstone's distinctive iridescence is caused by light passing from one lamella of crystal to another
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Recent Examples of lamellaIn addition, the floor-standing loudspeakers are adorned with aluminum lamellas inspired by Ferrari’s lateral side air vents.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2024 The historic finding mostly hinged on the architectural style of the ceiling and roof, called a lamella roof.—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024 Those vents are slotted to mimic the lamella structures on the undersides of mushrooms, and that design theme permeates the interior.—Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 3 Sep. 2023 The beak’s two yellow ridges, called the lamella and the cere, lit up.—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
These tariffs threaten to kneecap an emerging sector of innovation around the world, that is, for the first time, using traditional startup strategies and pathways to innovate, scale and grow.
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Nish Acharya,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Traditional data lakes can store raw data at scale but lack quality controls, while warehouses enforce structure but struggle with unstructured or fast changing data.
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