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   ply

   /plʌɪ/

   noun

   • 1. a thickness or layer of a folded or laminated material: "tiles that have a black PVC ply in the lamination"
   • ▪ a strand of yarn or rope: "four-ply yarn"
   • ▪ the number of multiple layers or strands of which something is made: "the yarn can be any ply from two to eight"
   • ▪ a reinforcing layer of fabric in a tyre: "a six-ply whitewall tire"
   • 2. short for plywood
   • 3. (in game theory) the number of levels at which branching occurs in a tree of possible outcomes, typically corresponding to the number of moves ahead (in chess strictly half-moves ahead) considered by a computer program.
   • ▪ a half-move (i.e. one player's move) in computer chess.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘fold’): from French pli ‘fold’, from the verb plier, from Latin plicare ‘to fold’.

   Scrabble Points: 8

   • P

     3

   • L

     1

   • Y

     4

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