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Definition of stratum in English: stratumnounPlural strata ˈstrɑːtəmˈstreɪtəm 1A layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground. Example sentencesExamples - Extensional faults are planed by a regional unconformity that is overstepped by Permian to Cretaceous strata.
- His carved plywood canvasses are acutely reminiscent of fossil imprints layered in geological strata.
- Carboniferous to Cretaceous strata are exposed in an extensive series of outcrops along the east coast of Greenland.
- Beneath a thin veneer of Pleistocene sediments, it encountered a thick sequence of Cenozoic and Jurassic strata separated by major unconformities.
- Because of this, it has often been difficult to correlate rock strata with layers from other localities.
- Additional control on the subsurface continuity of the strata is provided by seismic data.
- By the 1950s confusion had arisen over the use of geological terms referring to strata and to time.
- All the wells penetrate Mesozoic strata, and 40 wells penetrate Palaeozoic strata.
- The sequence ends with Upper Carboniferous continental-facies molasse deposits, including redbeds and coal-bearing strata.
- Overlying the Jurassic succession, a thin sequence of basal Cretaceous strata including the Greensand is characterized by radial outward dips.
- The syn-rift succession overlies Eocene to Oligocene pre-rift strata with an angular unconformity.
- If a single mammalian fossil were found in situ in precambrian rock strata, evolution would be falsified.
- Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.
- Lower Cambrian and subordinate Precambrian strata are mainly metamorphic marine clastic deposits and underlie parts of the western section of the county.
- Inliers of Avalonian strata crop out in the west of the English Midlands in Shropshire.
- Nineteenth-century geologists, basing their estimate on sedimentary rock strata, gauged Earth's age to be hundreds of millions of years.
- George believed that the Grand Canyon had a soul, that it wasn't merely rocks, strata, and accumulated layers of lava and sediments.
- Nestling into exposed rock, the house appears deeply rooted in the ground itself, emerging as an extension of the geological strata beneath it.
- The deposition of Palaeogene siliciclastic shelf strata in the Wessex Basin cannot be interpreted exclusively in terms of fluctuations in relative sea level.
- In this paper, we describe the use of spectral gamma-ray logs in testing and refining high-resolution stratigraphy in fluvial strata.
Synonyms layer, vein, seam, lode, bed stratification, thickness, sheet, lamina - 1.1 A thin layer within any structure.
Example sentencesExamples - As the song progresses, it seems to become both more structured and overwhelming, as its ever-expanding stratum seems to congeal into a more regular pattern.
- His goal in translating was ‘to get back to the first stratum of the language’.
- We assumed, in the statistical model, that censoring was independent of breast cancer risk within each stratum of stress.
- The layeredness that Smithson found within the various strata of the jetty, Shaw finds in, and grafts into, the process of textual production.
- It was the last week of October, and a stratum of dry leaves crackled beneath our feet while we walked.
- Their proposal consists of vertical structures organized into horizontal strata, including cultural space and green space.
- Their experiences and rhetoric are often hard to disentangle in the autobiographical strata of the novel.
- This scale is suited to identification of strata even within relatively homogeneous lower-SES populations.
- The sample was chosen from randomly selected public school districts and individual private schools within geographic strata throughout the state.
- The corruption and get-rich-quick mentality on Wall Street found its direct reflection within the privileged strata that make up the union bureaucracy.
- Cody's hypothesis would require that an individual remains within a smaller stratum in the high-density layer than in the low-density layer.
- Dissonance emerges through highly structured chord strata and haunting tonalities and atonalities working with and then against one another.
- While Instonians have desires on Division 2 football, the club apparently is not anxious to play in the top strata, feeling that Ulster should be the only professional team in the north.
- Within each stratum, calves were randomly assigned to one of two finishing systems.
- The decision to baptize chips under a thin liquid stratum will allow the making of circuits with features that measure the breadth of a virus.
- It, or at least its basic stratum, is the spatio-temporal world of things as we experience it in our pre-scientific and extra-scientific life.
- If a school refused to participate, they selected a replacement school within the same stratum.
- However, the three strata should be considered as three separate trials of similar design.
- If canopy birds have a greater need to shift downwards than understory birds, the strata of canopy birds should be wider than those of understory birds.
- Hence the use of collage, the endlessly repainted surfaces, the emphasis on ghostly traces within the underlying strata of the painting.
2A level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education, or income. members of other social strata Example sentencesExamples - A dialogue between various strata, castes and tribes within the Dalit community has been initiated.
- Where the middling strata were thin on the ground, as in Spain or Hungary, liberalism could take on a strong aristocratic tinge.
- Now, in the old agrarian societies-societies of the sort fundamental to Oriental culture-there were primarily four classes of human beings: four social strata.
- There may also be much variation in sexual behavior and meanings within similar socioeconomic strata.
- It is also to be seen in the idea that universities should see that their teaching role benefits the community widely and not just those drawn from a narrow stratum within the community.
- There is no question that the working class must strive to win the support of other classes and intermediate social strata in the struggle against global capitalism.
- The approaches of different countries, social strata and classes differ as well.
- Its key support comes not from Arab governments, which fear it for good reason, but from a thin but widespread stratum in Muslim society.
- Women generally have a high status in the working class, but not in other social strata.
- Critics, all from the upper-middle classes, associated street clamor with the lower social strata.
- First, there is a thin but very influential stratum of intellectuals - broadly defined, as people with Western-style higher education, especially in the humanities and social sciences.
- Whatever the short-term outcome of these manoeuvres, the splits and divisions within Fiji's ruling strata will only fester and lead to further political instability.
- Taking giant leaps towards modernism is not wrong, but development has to be balanced and it should reach the lowest strata of the society, so that no one is left deprived of its benefits.
- To suggest that a thin stratum of Anglo-Saxon immigrants, ruling a vastly larger population, without a written language or a state level of organisation, could linguistically assimilate their social inferiors simply makes no sense.
- Roma were again the least educated social stratum.
- This process is of particular significance in the case of the working class, that social stratum said to have been most resistant to Nazi propaganda.
- Its old constituencies - within a substantial stratum of the ruling elite and broad sections of the middle class - have all but disappeared.
- Women, of all ages, education, and social strata love the gossip magazines!
- At higher levels this includes attracting foreign investment while at the very basic it means increasing Internet connectivity and usage in rural and urban strata.
- All these strata tend to be endogamous or, in the south, observe the marital rule of hypergamy, in which men marry within their strata or lower and women marry their equals or higher-status men.
Synonyms level, class, echelon, rank, grade, station, gradation group, set, bracket caste archaic estate, sphere - 2.1Statistics A group into which members of a population are divided in stratified sampling.
allocation of sample units to strata Example sentencesExamples - Secondly, we needed strata within which participants had roughly identical rates of disease progression.
- Sampling fractions for different strata were used to compute the number of subjects in each subgroup.
- The overall household rate was increased by sampling disproportionately from the strata with larger proportions of households.
- In the current study, the test for heterogeneity was performed within each data stratum.
- Because the survey used a complex stratified design with differences in sampling fractions among strata, the unweighted sample is not representative of the target population.
- Mothers were then randomised to the intervention or control group within two strata.
Usage In Latin the word stratum is singular and its plural form is strata. In English this distinction is maintained—it is incorrect to use strata as a singular or to create the form stratas as the plural: a series of overlying strata not a series of overlying stratas, and a new stratum was uncovered not a new strata was uncovered Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'layer or coat of a substance'): modern Latin, from Latin, literally 'something spread or laid down', neuter past participle of sternere 'strew'. Rhymes desideratum, erratum, post-partum Definition of stratum in US English: stratumnoun 1A layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground. Example sentencesExamples - The deposition of Palaeogene siliciclastic shelf strata in the Wessex Basin cannot be interpreted exclusively in terms of fluctuations in relative sea level.
- The syn-rift succession overlies Eocene to Oligocene pre-rift strata with an angular unconformity.
- George believed that the Grand Canyon had a soul, that it wasn't merely rocks, strata, and accumulated layers of lava and sediments.
- Nineteenth-century geologists, basing their estimate on sedimentary rock strata, gauged Earth's age to be hundreds of millions of years.
- In this paper, we describe the use of spectral gamma-ray logs in testing and refining high-resolution stratigraphy in fluvial strata.
- Inliers of Avalonian strata crop out in the west of the English Midlands in Shropshire.
- Overlying the Jurassic succession, a thin sequence of basal Cretaceous strata including the Greensand is characterized by radial outward dips.
- Beneath a thin veneer of Pleistocene sediments, it encountered a thick sequence of Cenozoic and Jurassic strata separated by major unconformities.
- Nestling into exposed rock, the house appears deeply rooted in the ground itself, emerging as an extension of the geological strata beneath it.
- Additional control on the subsurface continuity of the strata is provided by seismic data.
- Carboniferous to Cretaceous strata are exposed in an extensive series of outcrops along the east coast of Greenland.
- The sequence ends with Upper Carboniferous continental-facies molasse deposits, including redbeds and coal-bearing strata.
- By the 1950s confusion had arisen over the use of geological terms referring to strata and to time.
- Lower Cambrian and subordinate Precambrian strata are mainly metamorphic marine clastic deposits and underlie parts of the western section of the county.
- All the wells penetrate Mesozoic strata, and 40 wells penetrate Palaeozoic strata.
- If a single mammalian fossil were found in situ in precambrian rock strata, evolution would be falsified.
- Extensional faults are planed by a regional unconformity that is overstepped by Permian to Cretaceous strata.
- His carved plywood canvasses are acutely reminiscent of fossil imprints layered in geological strata.
- Because of this, it has often been difficult to correlate rock strata with layers from other localities.
- Carboniferous and Permian strata often contain useful index fossils belonging to this group.
Synonyms layer, vein, seam, lode, bed - 1.1 A thin layer within any structure.
Example sentencesExamples - The corruption and get-rich-quick mentality on Wall Street found its direct reflection within the privileged strata that make up the union bureaucracy.
- Their proposal consists of vertical structures organized into horizontal strata, including cultural space and green space.
- Their experiences and rhetoric are often hard to disentangle in the autobiographical strata of the novel.
- If canopy birds have a greater need to shift downwards than understory birds, the strata of canopy birds should be wider than those of understory birds.
- Within each stratum, calves were randomly assigned to one of two finishing systems.
- The decision to baptize chips under a thin liquid stratum will allow the making of circuits with features that measure the breadth of a virus.
- If a school refused to participate, they selected a replacement school within the same stratum.
- However, the three strata should be considered as three separate trials of similar design.
- The layeredness that Smithson found within the various strata of the jetty, Shaw finds in, and grafts into, the process of textual production.
- While Instonians have desires on Division 2 football, the club apparently is not anxious to play in the top strata, feeling that Ulster should be the only professional team in the north.
- This scale is suited to identification of strata even within relatively homogeneous lower-SES populations.
- Cody's hypothesis would require that an individual remains within a smaller stratum in the high-density layer than in the low-density layer.
- As the song progresses, it seems to become both more structured and overwhelming, as its ever-expanding stratum seems to congeal into a more regular pattern.
- It was the last week of October, and a stratum of dry leaves crackled beneath our feet while we walked.
- The sample was chosen from randomly selected public school districts and individual private schools within geographic strata throughout the state.
- We assumed, in the statistical model, that censoring was independent of breast cancer risk within each stratum of stress.
- It, or at least its basic stratum, is the spatio-temporal world of things as we experience it in our pre-scientific and extra-scientific life.
- Dissonance emerges through highly structured chord strata and haunting tonalities and atonalities working with and then against one another.
- His goal in translating was ‘to get back to the first stratum of the language’.
- Hence the use of collage, the endlessly repainted surfaces, the emphasis on ghostly traces within the underlying strata of the painting.
2A level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education, or income. members of other social strata Example sentencesExamples - Whatever the short-term outcome of these manoeuvres, the splits and divisions within Fiji's ruling strata will only fester and lead to further political instability.
- There is no question that the working class must strive to win the support of other classes and intermediate social strata in the struggle against global capitalism.
- This process is of particular significance in the case of the working class, that social stratum said to have been most resistant to Nazi propaganda.
- First, there is a thin but very influential stratum of intellectuals - broadly defined, as people with Western-style higher education, especially in the humanities and social sciences.
- Women generally have a high status in the working class, but not in other social strata.
- The approaches of different countries, social strata and classes differ as well.
- Now, in the old agrarian societies-societies of the sort fundamental to Oriental culture-there were primarily four classes of human beings: four social strata.
- At higher levels this includes attracting foreign investment while at the very basic it means increasing Internet connectivity and usage in rural and urban strata.
- Where the middling strata were thin on the ground, as in Spain or Hungary, liberalism could take on a strong aristocratic tinge.
- Roma were again the least educated social stratum.
- Critics, all from the upper-middle classes, associated street clamor with the lower social strata.
- There may also be much variation in sexual behavior and meanings within similar socioeconomic strata.
- A dialogue between various strata, castes and tribes within the Dalit community has been initiated.
- It is also to be seen in the idea that universities should see that their teaching role benefits the community widely and not just those drawn from a narrow stratum within the community.
- Its key support comes not from Arab governments, which fear it for good reason, but from a thin but widespread stratum in Muslim society.
- Taking giant leaps towards modernism is not wrong, but development has to be balanced and it should reach the lowest strata of the society, so that no one is left deprived of its benefits.
- Women, of all ages, education, and social strata love the gossip magazines!
- To suggest that a thin stratum of Anglo-Saxon immigrants, ruling a vastly larger population, without a written language or a state level of organisation, could linguistically assimilate their social inferiors simply makes no sense.
- All these strata tend to be endogamous or, in the south, observe the marital rule of hypergamy, in which men marry within their strata or lower and women marry their equals or higher-status men.
- Its old constituencies - within a substantial stratum of the ruling elite and broad sections of the middle class - have all but disappeared.
Synonyms level, class, echelon, rank, grade, station, gradation - 2.1Statistics A group into which members of a population are divided in stratified sampling.
Example sentencesExamples - Because the survey used a complex stratified design with differences in sampling fractions among strata, the unweighted sample is not representative of the target population.
- Sampling fractions for different strata were used to compute the number of subjects in each subgroup.
- Secondly, we needed strata within which participants had roughly identical rates of disease progression.
- The overall household rate was increased by sampling disproportionately from the strata with larger proportions of households.
- Mothers were then randomised to the intervention or control group within two strata.
- In the current study, the test for heterogeneity was performed within each data stratum.
Usage In Latin, the word stratum is singular and its plural form is strata. In English, this distinction is maintained. It is therefore incorrect to use strata as a singular: a new stratum was uncovered (not a new strata was uncovered). It is also wrong to create the form stratums or stratas as the plural: a series of overlying strata (not overlying stratums or overlying stratas) Origin Late 16th century (in the sense ‘layer or coat of a substance’): modern Latin, from Latin, literally ‘something spread or laid down’, neuter past participle of sternere ‘strew’. |