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stratum
noun
1 stratum
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).
Dutch: laag
2 stratum
3 stratum
An abstract place usually conceived as having depth.
synonyms: layer, level.
Roget 204:
layer,
stratum,
strata,
course,
bed,
zone,
substratum,
substrata,
floor,
flag,
stage,
story,
tier,
slab,
escarpment;
table,
tablet;
dess†;
flagstone;
board,
plank;
trencher,
platter.
plate;
lamina,
lamella;
sheet,
foil;
wafer;
scale,
flake,
peel;
coat,
pellicle;
membrane,
film;
leaf;
slice,
shive†,
cut,
rasher,
shaving,
integument
etc.
(covering)
223;
eschar†.
stratification,
scaliness,
nest of boxes,
coats of an onion.
monolayer;
bilayer;
trilayer [Bioch.].
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Roget 213:
horizontality†;
flatness;
level,
plane;
stratum
etc.
204;
dead level,
dead flat;
level plane.
recumbency,
lying down
etc.
v.;
reclination†,
decumbence†;
decumbency†,
discumbency†;
proneness
etc.
adj.;
accubation†,
supination†,
resupination†,
prostration;
azimuth.
plain,
floor,
platform,
bowling green;
cricket ground;
croquet ground,
croquet lawn;
billiard table;
terrace,
estrade†,
esplanade,
parterre.
[flat land area]
table land,
plateau,
ledge;
butte;
mesa
(plain)
344.
[instrument to measure horizontality]
level,
spirit level.
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Dutch: laag
Polish: warstwa
4 stratum
A subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling.
Moby thesaurus: Appleton layer, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer, Van Allen belt, band, bed, bedding, belt, blood, bracket, branch, caste, category, chemosphere, clan, class, couche, course, deck, division, estate, floor, gallery, grade, group, grouping, head, heading, ionosphere, isothermal region, kin, label, layer, ledge, level, lower atmosphere, measures, order, outer atmosphere, overlayer, overstory, photosphere, pigeonhole, plane, position, predicament, race, rank, rating, rubric, seam, section, sept, set, shelf, stage, standing, station, status, step, story, strain, stratification, stratosphere, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, substratosphere, substratum, superstratum, table, thickness, tier, title, topsoil, tropopause, troposphere, underlayer, understory, understratum, upper atmosphere, vein, zone ... show more.
strata
noun
Roget 204:
layer,
stratum,
strata,
course,
bed,
zone,
substratum,
substrata,
floor,
flag,
stage,
story,
tier,
slab,
escarpment;
table,
tablet;
dess†;
flagstone;
board,
plank;
trencher,
platter.
plate;
lamina,
lamella;
sheet,
foil;
wafer;
scale,
flake,
peel;
coat,
pellicle;
membrane,
film;
leaf;
slice,
shive†,
cut,
rasher,
shaving,
integument
etc.
(covering)
223;
eschar†.
stratification,
scaliness,
nest of boxes,
coats of an onion.
monolayer;
bilayer;
trilayer [Bioch.].
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