It is made of a number of steel laminations of various sizes.
"LRL Accelerators The 184-Inch Synchrocyclotron"
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
The iron core is formed of very thin plates, or laminations as they are called, and this permits high-frequency oscillations to surge in a coil wound on it.
"The Radio Amateur's Hand Book"
A. Frederick Collins
The possibility exists that the body of the mill saw might have been made this way, with a tooth-bearing steel edge welded on, but there seems little reason for making a saw out of thin laminations.
"John Deere's Steel Plow"
Edward C. Kendall