ply
A layer of material.
Example
“two-ply toilet paper”
Other meanings
A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
“He proposed to build Deep Purple, a super-computer capable of 24-ply look-ahead for chess.”
A kind of
- strand
Word history
From Middle French "pli".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “ply” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.