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Forming or depositing in layers
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stratification
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stratification \Strat`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. stratification.] The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers. (Physiol.) The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Water stratification occurs when water masses with different properties - salinity ( halocline ), oxygenation ( chemocline ), density ( pycnocline ), temperature ( thermocline ) - form layers that act as barriers to water mixing which could lead to anoxia ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE social ▪ Beliefs which state that systems of social stratification are based on biological inequalities can be seen as rationalizations for those systems. ▪ Individualism, capitalism, and social stratification increasingly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Medieval Latin stratificationem (nominative stratificatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of stratificare "to form strata," from stratum "thing spread out" (see stratum ) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious ). In sociology ...
Usage examples of stratification.
Such overbuilding was not uncommon, one religion burying another, a stratification of Roman history.
Many of the camp sites, most of which are in locations sheltered from the prevailing northern winds, were relatively permanent, which shows, say some palaeontologists, that these primitive societies could resolve disputes and had an emerging social stratification.
Such associations certainly do not alter the economical stratification of society, but, especially in the small towns, they contribute to smooth social distinctions, and as they all tend to join in large national and international federations, they certainly aid the growth of personal friendly intercourse between all sorts of men scattered in different parts of the globe.
Stratification took place because the Talent appeared in a few Choosers, then spread to more each generation, until our ancestors no longer had a common goal with the unTalented.
Council had deemed worth carrying from Homeworld was a detailed geneology for every member of the Clan that had left during the Stratification.
In the cut-off world of big bikes, long runs and classy rumbles, this new, state-sanctioned stratification made the Hell's Angels very big.
Her co‑workers never believed her when she said that she located things in the heaps of printouts, programs, floppies, data, reports, management bulletins, journals, and ads on her desk by the oil company principle of geological stratification.
Geological stratification and radioactive dating provide information on archaeological, paleontological and geological events.
It is exactly the same as the ego-driven snobs, just setup on a different layer of stratification.
Who would have expected the pre-Socratic stockingcap scarecrow to be conversing with the stale theory of social stratification?
Second, food production may be organized so as to generate stored food surpluses, which permit economic specialization and social stratification.
The Nakeds faced a Camelotian dilemma: whether to accede to the realities of social stratification and capitulate to appearances as eveiything and deny your own hunger and seek contentment in conformity and tone down your spiel, spritz, shtick, and performance capability and rework it to suit a mainstream audience-or go iconoclastic all the way and fuck this overweening adolescent urge to BELONG.
Only Aldous Huxley ever wrote a scenario for social stratification that was completely, if chillingly, self-consistent and stable.
For the Maya Sector, the harsh social stratification which characterized most of the League outside of the inner worlds was neither necessary nor economically advantageous—.
Cave art, spiritualism, proto-urbanization, social stratification.