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Meanings of stratum in anglès

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Layer of sedimentary rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics.

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An amount of a certain material spread out relatively even over a surface; often seen as part of a structure composed of several similar or dissimilar such.

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Examples for "strata"
Examples for "strata"
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That's the level where the strata dates back over a million years.
Hula Done It?
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This survey demonstrated that the institutional strata significantly affected several practice patterns.
Pubmed
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Since the wind varies in direction, the strata dip in various directions.
The Elements of Geology
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But many are found lying in the strata in a horizontal plane.
The Story of a Piece of Coal: What It Is, Whence It Comes, and W...
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The earliest of these is the tilting of the once horizontal strata.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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People having the same social, economic, or educational status.

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Language that influences, or is influenced by another through contact.

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Usage of stratum in anglès
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She knew well that gladiators occupied an odd stratum in Roman society.
Roma Victrix
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The Samaritans were a despised lower stratum of the population of Palestine.
The Essentials of Spirituality
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The stratum of air lying up at the ceiling was comparatively cold.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885
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Moreover, a fossil once having disappeared never reappears in any later stratum.
A History of Science — Volume 3
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And over the old hopes time has brought a stratum of new.
The Art of Public Speaking
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There were no stars among them and none of the lowest stratum.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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He had gone back to primal stratum: stolen and labored and adventured.
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
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The British, he believes, are experts at chronicling each stratum's many sub-divisions.
BBC
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There was a stratum of common clay under the rock of marble.
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
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Marius tapped a lower stratum, and allowed the Capite Censi to volunteer.
The Gracchi Marius and Sulla / Epochs of Ancient History
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These defects were correlated with stratum granulosum attenuation and reduced filaggrin expression.
Pubmed
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The surface is covered with ciliated epithelium, a stratum of ectodermic cells.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
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Four feet down, the bucket's teeth had bitten into a third stratum.
Spider bones: a novel
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Under a clayish surface soil, there was a stratum of solid chalk.
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
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A stratum of ashes, charcoal, and burned clay was associated with them.
Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made Durin...
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This, of course, carried then gossip into another stratum of society altogether.
The Vision of Desire
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Stratum through the time
Stratum across language varieties
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