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UK
/stɹˈɑːtəm/
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[ US /ˈstɹætəm/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹætəm/ ]
NOUN
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an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
a good actor communicates on several levels
a simile has at least two layers of meaning
the mind functions on many strata simultaneously -
people having the same social, economic, or educational status
the working class
an emerging professional class - one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
- a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling
How To Use stratum In A Sentence
- The strategy is to get water to be absorbed by the outer layer of skin, the stratum corneum and then to seal the water in the skin before it evaporates (which it will do rapidly).
- After irradiation, the stratum corneum was removed from the pigskin by stripping with adhesive tape.
- I am reluctant to state a case when the substratum was not the right substratum.
- They attached a fibre of the muscle protein actin to the gamma subunit, and the beta units were attached to the substratum. Press Release: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Clastic rock and low - grade metamorphic rock , and the non - disease area is mainly in the coal stratum.
- Sand is commonly met with at the depth of three or four fathoms, and beneath this a stratum of napal or steatite, which is considered as a sign that the metal is near; but the least fallible mark is a red stone, called batu kawi, lying in detached pieces. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
- Never before, I believe, has anything been written enabling us to see so clearly into the soul of a young girl, belonging to our social and cultural stratum, during the years of puberal development. A Young Girl's Diary
- In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected.
- They do not constitute a separate class or stratum.
- I laid the precious stratum, _super stratum_ upon the two former, and other deposits of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832