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stratification en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English stratum Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -ficātiō Old French -ificationbor. Middle English -ificacioun English -ification English stratification From stratum + -ification.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
   • 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whole west wing belonged to an earlier building, contemporary with the West Court of Phæstos, and that they were later superseded and partly covered over by a later structure, contemporary with the supposed mainland Achæan type of Megaron at Phæstos that is now proved to be no Megaron at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. 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 80:
2. (countable, uncountable) A layering of musical texture.
3. (countable, uncountable) The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
4. (countable, uncountable) Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
5. (countable, uncountable) The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
6. (countable, uncountable) A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.

Forms

Deriveds

stratificational · pseudostratification · destratification · multistratification · macrostratification · economic stratification · overstratification · microstratification · costratification · lake stratification · monostratification · biostratification · interstratification · poststratification · substratification · phylostratification · prestratification · cross-stratification · restratification

Hyponyms

cold treatment

Translations (33)

pt estratificação (categorization of people) · es estratificación (process leading to formation of layers) · de Schichtenbildung (process leading to formation of layers) · de Lagerung (process leading to formation of layers) · el στρωμάτωση (process leading to formation of layers) · de Ablagerung (process leading to formation of layers) · de Hierarchisierung (categorization of people) · pt estratificação (process leading to formation of layers) · cmn 階層 /阶层 (categorization of people) · el στρωματοποίηση (process leading to formation of layers) · hy շերտավորում (process leading to formation of layers) · de Stratifizierung (process leading to formation of layers) · de Aufschichtung (process leading to formation of layers) · fi stratifikaatio (horticulture: simulation of natural conditions) · fi kylmäkäsittely (horticulture: simulation of natural conditions) · fi kerrostaminen (layering of musical textures) · de Stratifikation (vertical layering of vegetation) · de Schichtbildung (process leading to formation of layers) · el διαστρωμάτωση (categorization of people) · it stratificazione (process leading to formation of layers) · id stratifikasi (categorization of people) · fa اشکوبش (process leading to formation of layers) · ca estratificació (process leading to formation of layers) · fi kerrostuneisuus (categorization of people) · fr stratification (process leading to formation of layers) · ko 층상구조 (vertical layering of vegetation) · fi kerrostuneisuus (vertical layering of vegetation) · de Bänderung (process leading to formation of layers) · ro stratificație (process leading to formation of layers) · no stratifisering (categorization of people) · de Schichtung (process leading to formation of layers) · fi kerrostuminen (process leading to formation of layers) · bg наслояване (process leading to formation of layers)