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Stratification

noun

The act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata.

The condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group. Synonym: social stratification.

Forming or depositing in layers.

A layered configuration.

The placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination.

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"Stratification" Quotes from Famous Books

... shining, while the other four are much rougher, and are marked by lines which run parallel with the smooth sides. The coal readily splits along these lines, and the split surfaces thus formed are parallel with the smooth faces. In other words, there is a sort of rough and incomplete stratification in the lump of coal, as if it were a book, the leaves of which had ...

— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... itself the negation of class. Human beings are not equal in these qualities. But a society that is based upon a constant flux of individuals in the community, upon the basis of ability and character, is a moving virile mass; it is not a stratification of classes. Its inspiration is individual initiative. Its stimulus is competition. Its safeguard is education. Its greatest mentor is free speech and voluntary organization for public good. Its expression in legislation is ...

— Herbert Hoover - The Man and His Work • Vernon Kellogg

... spread more and more, leaving at length mere specks and patches of blue between them. Passing some high peaks, formed by the dislocation of the ice, we came to a place where the "neve" was rent by crevasses, on the walls of which the stratification, due to successive snowfalls, was thrown with great beauty and definition. Between two of these fissures our way now lay; the wall of one of them was hollowed out longitudinally midway down, thus forming a roof above and a ledge below, and from roof to ledge stretched a railing of cylindrical ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI • Various

... for objecting to class stratification of income which have heaped themselves up since the time of Jesus. In politics it defeats every form of government except that of a necessarily corrupt oligarchy. Democracy in the most democratic modern republics: Prance and the United States for example, ...

— Preface to Androcles and the Lion - On the Prospects of Christianity • George Bernard Shaw

... without success. Sedgwick's mode of instruction was admirable—he from time to time sent the pupil off on a line parallel to his own, "telling me to bring back specimens of the rocks and to mark the stratification on a map." ("L.L." I. page 57.) On his return to Shrewsbury, Darwin wrote to Henslow, "My trip with Sedgwick answered most perfectly," ("L.L." I. page 195.), and in the following year he wrote again from South America to the same friend, "Tell ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

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