Other forms: stratifications
Stratification is the arrangement of things in separate layers. Social stratification.
In rock the layers record time, since each was laid down on the one below. In society stratification means classes that rarely mix rather than merely differ.
1nounstratificationThe arrangement of things in separate layers.
“The stratification in the cliff face covered forty million years.”
stratification is an arrangement.
Proto-Indo-European
*sterh₃-
Latin
strātum — a spread for a bed, coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster; a bed
English
stratum
English, today
stratification
Built from
From stratum + -ification. stratum Latin strātum (“a spread for a bed, coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster; a bed”), neuter singular of strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread”). a doublet of estrade and street.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA