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Definition of Stratification

1. Noun. The act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata.

2. Noun. The condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group.

3. Noun. Forming or depositing in layers.

4. Noun. A layered configuration.

5. Noun. The placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination.

Definition of Stratification

1. n. The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.

Definition of Stratification

1. Noun. the process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks ¹

2. Noun. (music) a layering of musical texture ¹

3. Noun. (ecology) the vertical layering of vegetation in a forest ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stratification

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stratification

strategizer strategizers strategizes strategizing strategus strategy strategy game strategy games strath straths

strathspey strathspeys strati stratic straticulate stratification (current term) stratifications stratified stratified columnar epithelia stratified columnar epithelium

stratified language stratified sample stratified sampling stratifies stratiform stratify stratifying stratigrapher stratigraphers stratigraphic

Literary usage of Stratification

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

1. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1896)
"stratification. We have seen that heterogeneous material thrown into still ... This is not stratification, since the various degrees of fineness graduate ..."

2. Socioeconomic Renovation in Viet Nam: The Origin, Evolution, and Impact of by Peter Boothroyd, Xuân Nam Phạm (2000)
"Social stratification, hunger eradication, and poverty alleviation According to Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Max Weber (1864-1920), presumably "the two giants ..."

3. Socioeconomic Renovation in Viet Nam: The Origin, Evolution, and Impact of by Peter Boothroyd, Xuân Nam Phạm (2000)
"Social stratification, hunger eradication, and poverty alleviation According to Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Max Weber (1864-1920), presumably "the two giants ..."

4. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey (1868)
"stratification.—Some of the rock is BO thin bedded as to be schistose, while other portions are so thick bedded and solid, that for long distances it •is ..."

5. Geology of New Jersey by New Jersey Geological Survey (1868)
"stratification.—Some of the rock is so thin bedded as to be schistose, while other portions are so thick bedded and solid, that for long distances it is ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1852)
"THE general idea respecting the origin or cause of stratification, as expressed in ... That such is really the cause of stratification in many cases, ..."

7. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1855)
"There are four distinct forms of structure exhibited in rocks, namely, stratification, joints, slaty cleavage, and foliation ; and all these must have ..."

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