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Definition of Layout

1. Noun. A plan or design of something that is laid out.

2. Noun. The act of laying out (as by making plans for something).

Definition of Layout

1. Noun. A structured arrangement of items within certain limits. ¹

2. Noun. A plan for such arrangement. ¹

3. Noun. The act of laying out something. ¹

4. Noun. (context: publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints. ¹

5. Noun. (engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions. ¹

6. Noun. (electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Layout

1. an arrangement or plan [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Layout

laying out laying over laying siege laying up laying waste layings layins layland laylock laylocks

layman laymen layn layoff layoffs layout (current term) layouts layover layovers laypeople

layperson laypersons lays lays a foundation lays bare lays down lays off lays out lays over lays siege

Literary usage of Layout

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electric Railway Handbook: A Reference Book of Practice Data, Formulas and by Albert Sutton Richey, William Charles Greenough (1915)
"2 shows a track layout which will permit frequent operating on one of a pair ... 3 shows a layout for an operating house which introduces a minimum amount ..."

2. The Manufacture of Pulp and Paper: A Textbook of Modern Pulp and Paper Mill by J. Newell Stephenson (1922)
"Diagram of layout.—Fig. 40 shows in diagrammatic form the layout of the equipment ... In this layout, the stock is pumped from the grinders to the screening ..."

3. Sewerage and Sewage Treatment by Harold Eaton Babbitt (1922)
"The preliminary layout of the system is shown in Fig. 24. ... Manholes are next located on the pipes of this tentative layout. Good practice calls for the ..."

4. Housing and Town Planning by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Carol Aronovici (1914)
"THE STREET layout BY B. ANTRIM HALDEMAN, Assistant Engineer, Bureau of Surveys, Philadelphia. The street layout may seem, to the layman and to the citizen ..."

5. Economics of Bridgework: A Sequel to Bridge Engineering by John Alexander Low Waddell (1921)
"layout for Proposed Hoogly River Bridge at Calcutta, India . ... layout of Proposed Transbordeur for Crossing the Mississippi River at New Orleans, ..."

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