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Word: stratum (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status
  • Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers
  • biology A layer of tissue
  • ecology A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
  • geology A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout
  • One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another

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