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stratum
  1. One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
  2. (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
  3. Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
  4. (biology) A layer of tissue.
  5. A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
  6. (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
  7. (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “Below this surface soil is a stratum of sand, overlying the gravelly beds below and passing into the surface soil just mentioned.”
      “To suggest that a thin stratum of Anglo-Saxon immigrants, ruling a vastly larger population, without a written language or a state level of organisation, could linguistically assimilate their social inferiors simply makes no sense.”
      “Keratolytic preparations containing salicylic acid in a propylene glycol gel may be used to remove the stratum corneum.”
stratification
  1. the process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks
  2. (music) a layering of musical texture
  3. (ecology) the vertical layering of vegetation in a forest
  4. (sociology) society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The fluids produce dolomites which cut across the original stratification of the rock.”
      “Even though Manipuris are Hindu, the Indian caste system is not the basis of social stratification.”
      “A primary depositional feature of many layered rocks is stratification, or bedding.”
stratosphere
  1. (geology, obsolete) Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.
  2. (meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone. The stratosphere extends from the tropopause (10–15 kilometers) to approximately 50 kilometers, where it is succeeded by the mesosphere.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Plinian eruptions are marked by columns of smoke and ash extending high into the stratosphere.”
      “This keeps the air mass above the continent cold, and in the cold and dark, clouds that contain chlorine can form in the polar stratosphere.”
      “Like the linking verb in a sentence, it is meant to connect the microcosm of the original film with the celestial stratosphere of the finale.”
stratigraphy
  1. (geology) The study of rock layers and the layering process (stratification).
  2. (archaeology) the layering of deposits, with newer remains overlaying older ones, forming a chronology of the site.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Two researchers studied the stratigraphy and paleoenvironments represented by the Silurian rocks of the Girvan district.”
      “The stratigraphy of Unit 2 is known only from stratigraphic reports that are mainly based on cutting analyses and petrophysical interpretation.”
      “The offshore stratigraphy contains several westward-prograding units of Cenozoic age that drape across the buried Mesozoic rift shoulder faults.”
stratoanalysis
  1. An analytical theory that attempts to understand a subject in terms of stratification, or layers.
stratifin
  1. (biochemistry) A protein found in stratified keratinizing epithelial cells.
stratography
stratotype
  1. (geology) A stratigraphic section used to establish a reference point on a geologic time scale.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Geological periods are defined with reference to a Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point.”
stratimetry
  1. measurement of the strata of the Earth's crust
stratography
  1. A description of an army, or of what belongs to an army.
stratigrapher
stratigraphist
  1. (dated) A stratigrapher.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The study of the geological features' of this district presents many problems of exceeding interest both to the stratigraphist and petrologist.”
stratigraphists
stratifications
  1. plural of stratification
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This implies that history, with all its stratifications, is preferable to the idea of repatriation at all costs.”
      “Saturn's satellite Phoebe is too small for it to have separated into vertical stratifications when it formed.”
stratigraphers
stratospheres
  1. plural of stratosphere
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Similar temperature inversions occur in the stratospheres of other planets in our solar system, such as Jupiter and Saturn.”
      “In unfinished studies, both its model and a French one show the polar stratospheres growing more isolated and colder.”
stratigraphies
  1. plural of stratigraphy
stratotypes
  1. plural of stratotype
strata
  1. plural of stratum
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The volcanic strata consist of sheet-like flows of andesite, dacite, basalts, and trachybasalts that are interbedded with agglomerates and tuffs.”
      “Microseismic monitoring has a role to play because the failure of the rock strata causes microseismic emissions.”
      “Leached residual soil and sediment of overlying strata occur within the dissolution pipes and pits.”
stratums
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