stratum
IPA: strˈætʌm
noun
- One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
- (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
- Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
- (biology) A layer of tissue.
- A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
- (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
- (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
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Examples of "stratum" in Sentences
- The plural form of strata is stratum.
- At the bottom of society was a stratum of slaves.
- Below the stratum corneum lies the viable epidermis.
- The skin’s outer layer is called the stratum corneum.
- The stratum beneath the surface consists of glacial gravel.
- The herbaceous stratum includes numerous sedges and grasses.
- The upper level is bordered by an impermeable stratum of clay.
- They penetrate the epidermis and end in the stratum granulosum.
- Connate water is trapped in rock stratum at the time of formation.
- In addition, melanocytes determine the darkness of the stratum lucidum.
- In addition to these, Stalin distinguished the stratum of intelligentsia.
- Recover the integrity of the skin’s outer layer, which is called the stratum corneum
- I laid the precious stratum, _super stratum_ upon the two former, and other deposits of
- I think the most significant effect of commerce and the social stratum is the strengthening of the middle class.
- No, it means that too many people of a certain stratum of wealth and power have a dismissive attitude towards the rule of law, and we need to fix that with more severe sanctions.
- He sees a certain stratum of clouds, and feels a certain humidity in the atmosphere, and in the past he has learned to associate those signs with a fine day tomorrow, so he says, "I see it is going to be a fine day."
- The scrub stratum is composed mainly of Acacia farnesian, and Eysenhardtia polystachya, and herbaceous stratum is composed of Bouteloua filiformis, B. curtipendula, Hilaria cenchroides, Muhlenbergia stricta, and M. rigida.
- At no successive instants, during a bright day, after the earth has once been warmed to the temperature of the night air of the previous night, do the same particles touch the surface; an unremitting renewal of the surface air-stratum is in continual progress as long as the heat of the soil or terrestrial surface is greater than that of the air in contact with it.
- The stratum mucosum (mucous layer) is composed of several layers of cells; those of the deepest layer are columnar in shape and placed perpendicularly on the surface of the basement membrane, to which they are attached by toothed extremities; this deepest layer is sometimes termed the stratum germinativum; the succeeding strata consist of cells of a more rounded or polyhedral form, the contents of which are soft, opaque, granular, and soluble in acetic acid.