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stratified (root: stratify)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective stratified has 3 senses
- stratified(s = adj.all) graded, ranked - arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; "stratified areas of the distribution"
- stratified(a = adj.all) bedded - deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock" Antonym: unstratified
- stratified(s = adj.all) class-conscious - (used of society) socially hierarchical; "American society is becoming increasingly stratified"
CIDE DICTIONARY
stratified, a.
Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
stratified
assorted, cataloged, classified, filed, filmy, foliaceous, foliated, graded, grouped, hierarchic, in layers, indexed, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminate, laminated, laminous, leaflike, leafy, membranous, on file, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranked, rated, scummy, sorted, spathic, spathose, stratiform, tabular, three-ply, two-plyROGET THESAURUS
stratified
Layer
N 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, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.
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