stratification
stratification noun: the process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
Noun
stratification (countable and uncountable, plural stratifications)
- 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whole west wing belonged to an earlier building, contemporary with the West Court of Phæstos, and that they were later superseded...1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 80
- A layering of musical texture.
- The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
- Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
- The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
- A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.
stratification meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Indonesian and Persian
stratification in Tamil
- அடுக்கமைவு, அடுக்கு, படையாக்கம், அடுக்கமைவுப் படுகை, படிப்படியாக்கம்
stratification in Bengali
- স্তরায়ন, স্তরবিন্যাস
stratification in Indonesian
- categorization of people
- stratifikasi
stratification in Persian
- process leading to formation of layers
- اشکوبش oškubeš
Examples of stratification in a sentence
- The rurban community offers greater possibilities of social stratification than does the open country community.
- Waters from neighboring seas and locally supplied fresh water fill up the fiords, often leading to strong stratification.
- Effective item placement can often be achieved through tying both the inventory stratification and family grouping approaches together.
Forms of stratification
| plural | stratifications |
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Origin of stratification
From stratum + -ification.
Words formed from stratification
- biostratification
- costratification
- cross-stratification
- destratification
- economic stratification
- interstratification
- lake stratification
- macrostratification
- microstratification
- monostratification
- multistratification
- overstratification
- phylostratification
- poststratification
- prestratification
- pseudostratification
- restratification
- stratificational
- substratification
Questions about stratification
- What does stratification mean?
- Stratification means the process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
- What is stratification in Tamil?
- Stratification in Tamil is அடுக்கமைவு, அடுக்கு, படையாக்கம். See Stratification meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is stratification?
- Stratification is a noun.
- What is the plural of stratification?
- The plural of stratification is stratifications.
Words near stratification in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stratification (page history and authors); stratification (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stratification (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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