stratification
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Etymology
From stratum + -ification.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
stratification (countable and uncountable, plural stratifications)
- The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
- 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 80:
- He has misunderstood the English excavators in regard to the stratification of Knossos. He has wrongly imagined that the West Court of Knossos and a great part of the whole west wing belonged to an earlier building, contemporary with the West Court of Phæstos, and that they were later superseded and partly covered over by a later structure, contemporary with the supposed mainland Achæan type of Megaron at Phæstos that is now proved to be no Megaron at all.
- (music) A layering of musical texture.
- (ecology) The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
- (sociology) Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
- (horticulture) The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
- Hyponym: cold treatment
- A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.
Derived terms
- biostratification
- costratification
- destratification
- economic stratification
- interstratification
- lake stratification
- macrostratification
- microstratification
- monostratification
- multistratification
- overstratification
- phylostratification
- poststratification
- prestratification
- pseudostratification
- restratification
- stratificational
- substratification
Translations
process leading to formation of layers
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layering of musical textures
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vertical layering of vegetation
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categorization of people
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horticulture: simulation of natural conditions
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Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
stratification f (plural stratifications)
Further reading
- “stratification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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