stratification
IPA: strætʌfʌkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
- (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.
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Examples of "stratification" in Sentences
- Process of class stratification.
- Age stratification and the elderly.
- Causes of population stratification.
- Flow and thermal stratification in the Snowy.
- The seeds require stratification to germinate.
- A critique of studies of kibbutz stratification.
- A stratification of an infinite dimensional space.
- The optic axis lies in the plane of stratification.
- The refractive ... is the cause of the stratification.
- This seemed to be confusing stratification with post stratification.
- If individuals value social stratification, is it the government's business to correct them?
- Dallas 'stratification is largely disbursed along the lines of income rather than reflectivity.
- The Index is put together using a technique known as stratification, which is an average of sale prices for common groups of properties.
- You could have a totally unbiased exit poll with zero sampling error, but until the stratification is accounted for, you have no information.
- With universal schooling, this might be the only outcome, and may be why income stratification is prevelant in many advanced societies, and getting more prevelant.
- This process of stratification is based, as it has been in the past, on valuing the rights and privileges of some while denying or stripping away the rights of others.
- Once this stratification is organized, a very slow evolution takes place by displacement of the contours and the globules, giving (according to circumstances over which I had no control) more or less importance to one band or the other or a series of bands which is the reason for the extraordinary variety of stepped laminae which are observed.