stratification
Stratification or stratification (from the Latin stratum "cover": layering) stands for:
- Stratification (botany) , cold treatment of seeds
- Stratification (logic) , order of predicate symbols
- Stratification (medicine) , risk stratification
- Stratification (ecology) , vertical stratification of a living space ("floor building")
- the formation of layers through sedimentation (deposition of particles from liquids or gases)
- the formation of soil layers that are archaeologically investigated, see stratigraphy (archeology)
- the development of temperature stratification in water bodies
- the division of a society into layers, see social class # layer models
- the division of a statistical sample into smaller groups, see stratified random sample
See also:
- Stratigraphy (disambiguation)
- Stratum (disambiguation)
- Layer (disambiguation)
- Layering (disambiguation)
Wiktionary: Stratification - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations