Usually means: Layering or division into categories.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. stratification: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stratification: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stratification: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stratification: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stratification: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stratification, stratification: Wordnik
  7. stratification: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stratification: Wiktionary
  9. stratification: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stratification: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. stratification: Dictionary.com
  12. stratification: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Stratification (archaeology), Stratification (archeology), Stratification (botany), Stratification (clinical trials), Stratification (mathematics), Stratification (seeds), Stratification (statistics), Stratification (vegetation), Stratification (water), Stratification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Stratification: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. stratification: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. stratification: Rhymezone
  17. Stratification: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. stratification: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. stratification: Free Dictionary
  20. stratification: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. stratification: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stratification: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stratification: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. stratification: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  3. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  4. stratification: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Stratification: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. stratification: Canadian Soil Information System
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See stratifications as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The process leading to the formation or deposition of layers, especially of sedimentary rocks.
noun:  (music) A layering of musical texture.
noun:  (ecology) The vertical layering of vegetation in a forest.
noun:  (sociology) Society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata.
noun:  (horticulture) The process of treating seeds to simulate natural conditions that the seeds must experience before germination can occur, often involving exposure to cold.
noun:  A classification or arrangement of things into different categories or groups.

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