| 单词 | stratification |
| 释义 | stratification (once / 13570 pages) n Stratification means arranging something, or something that has been arranged, into categories. By the time you figure out the complex social stratification of your high school class, from jocks to nerds and everything between, you’re ready to graduate. Stratification is a system or formation of layers, classes, or categories. Stratification is used to describe a particular way of arranging seeds while planting, as well as the geological layers of rocks. But like so many science words, somehow it’s not content to stay in the scientific realm, and must also have a place in the social sphere, where its job is to categorize and arrange people into groups: upper, middle, and lower classes, for example. WORD FAMILYstratification: stratifications+/interstratify: interstratified/stratified: unstratified/stratify: interstratify, stratification, stratified, stratifies, stratifying/stratum: strata, stratify, stratums, substratum, superstratum/substratum: substratums USAGE EXAMPLESNovartis, another Swiss pharmaceutical company, found a similar stratification of benefit in its trial of siponimod for secondary progressive MS. Nature(Nov 29, 2016) But there is no escaping the growing sense of stratification in the university sector and differences in status. BBC(Nov 17, 2016) The group’s President and CEO James Taylor says the numbers show the area’s increasing stratification of wealth. Washington Times(Nov 14, 2016) 1n forming or depositing in layers Hypo|Hyper foliation (geology) the arrangement of leaflike layers in a rock geologic process, geological process (geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified 2n a layered configuration Hyper configuration, conformation, contour, form, shape any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) 3n the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination Hyper emplacement, locating, location, placement, position, positioning the act of putting something in a certain place 4n the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata Hyper assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type 5n the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group Syn|Hyper social stratification condition a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing |
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