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layer cake is a cake consisting of multiple layers, usually held together by frosting or another type of filling.

In the mid-19th century, modern cakes were developed. One of the first recipes for layer cakes was published in The Cassell's New Universal Cookery Book. This book was published in London in 1894.

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The term also refers to a type of boosted fission Soviet nuclear weapon design originally developed by the nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov, referred to as . See Joe 4 for an article regarding a Russian nuclear test using this design.

Additionally, the term is used figuratively for denoting a diagram in which the levels are stacked on top of each other. The OSI model is one familiar example of this.

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