Stratified
['strætɪfaɪd] or ['strætə,faɪd]
Definition
(adj.) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; 'stratified rock' .
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Definition
(a.) Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.
(imp. & p. p.) of Stratify
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. In strata, in layers.
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Examples
- Moreover, he put granite in the same cat egory, and believed it had been injected, as also metalliferous veins, in liquid st ate into the stratified rocks. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In the case of stratified rocks, blocks are separated by hand tools alone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His situation forced his ideal into the notion of a society organized in stratified classes, losing the individual in the class. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Attempts also have been made to produce illumination by what is called stratified light produced by the electric discharge passing through tubes containing various gases. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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