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STRATIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("stratification" is a kind of...):
emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)
Derivation:
stratify (render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("stratification" is a kind of...):
assortment; categorisation; categorization; classification; compartmentalisation; compartmentalization (the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type)
Derivation:
stratify (divide society into social classes or castes)
stratify (develop different social levels, classes, or castes)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A layered configuration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("stratification" is a kind of...):
configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Forming or depositing in layers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("stratification" is a kind of...):
geologic process; geological process ((geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stratification"):
foliation ((geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock)
Derivation:
stratify (form layers or strata)
stratify (form, arrange, or deposit in layers)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group
Synonyms:
social stratification; stratification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("stratification" is a kind of...):
condition (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing)
Derivation:
stratify (divide society into social classes or castes)
stratify (develop different social levels, classes, or castes)
Context examples:
A reusable, "template" description of an allowable response to a stratification criterion.
(Defined Stratification Criterion Permissible Result, NCI Thesaurus)
EXAMPLE(S): The stratification criterion for gender can have permissible answers of male and female
(Defined Stratification Criterion Permissible Result, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Low oxygen levels are also associated with global heating, because the warmer water holds less oxygen and the heating causes stratification, so there is less of the vital mixing of oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor layers.
(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
