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

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