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means The process of bonding layers of material (often plastic film) over a surface to protect, stiffen, or strengthen it.

from From Latin 'lamina,' meaning a thin plate, sheet, or layer — the same root that gives us 'laminate.' The word originally described any thin metal or stone sheet, and only in the industrial age got pulled into factories and print shops, where pressing thin sheets together became the way to make menus, IDs, and posters outlast their owners.