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Definition of Stratified

1. Adjective. Arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks. "Stratified areas of the distribution"

2. Adjective. Deposited or arranged in horizontal layers. "Stratified rock"

3. Adjective. (used of society) socially hierarchical. "American society is becoming increasingly stratified"

Definition of Stratified

1. a. Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.

Definition of Stratified

1. Adjective. arranged in a sequence of layers or strata ¹

2. Adjective. (context: of society) having a class structure ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stratified

1. stratify [v] - See also: stratify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stratified

strategizes strategizing strategus strategy strategy game strategy games strath straths strathspey strathspeys

strati stratic straticulate stratification stratifications stratified (current term) stratified columnar epithelia stratified columnar epithelium stratified language stratified sample

stratified sampling stratifies stratiform stratify stratifying stratigrapher stratigraphers stratigraphic stratigraphical stratigraphically

Literary usage of Stratified

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

1. Rocks and Rock Minerals: A Manual of the Elements of Petrology Without the by Louis Valentine Pirsson (1913)
"ORIGIN AND CLASSIFICATION OF stratified ROCKS. THE stratified rocks consist of material which has already formed a part of ..."

2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"On the basis of position, existing stratified drift deposits may be classified ... Locally, too, stratified deposits of an early stage of a glacial epoch, ..."

3. Microscopical Morphology of the Animal Body in Health and Disease by Carl Heitzmann (1882)
"stratified epithelial layers are composed of all the three forms. Such stratified epithelia are found: on the surface of the skin, the oral cavity, ..."

4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Relations of stratified to Unstratified Drift.1 The general relations of the stratified to the Unstratified drift have already been indicated in a general ..."

5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"The general relations of the stratified to the unstratified drift have already been indicated in a general way. These relations may be understood, ..."

6. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1907)
"We shall begin our study of rock masses with the stratified series, ... The stratified rocks form more than nine-tenths of the earth's surface, ..."

7. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1907)
"We shall begin our study of rock masses with the stratified series, ... The stratified rocks form more than nine-tenths of the earth's surface, ..."

8. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1897)
"We shall begin our study of rock masses with the stratified series, ... The stratified rocks form more than nine-tenths of the earth's surface, ..."

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