stratification

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Even beyond the price tag, the new stadium creates a social stratification which is anathema to anyone who believes that ballparks are some of our last great shared public spaces.

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  1. noun Formation or deposition of layers, as of rock or sediments.
  2. noun The condition of being stratified.
  3. noun A layered configuration.

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  • The phytoplankton productivity of the North Sea and oxygen exchange between surface and deep waters are both sensitive to changes in timing and extent with water column stratification, and this is predicted to increase with global warming. —  Naturejobs - All Jobs
  • The resulting stratification has been applied to the whole global GBA2000 dataset, and preliminary validation results are reported for Africa. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In human studies, an analogous issue is population stratification, which is a great concern. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Even beyond the price tag, the new stadium creates a social stratification which is anathema to anyone who believes that ballparks are some of our last great shared public spaces. —  Baseball Prospectus
  • The archaeologists rapidly gave up trying to establish any kind of stratification, they'd arrived years too late, possibly centuries. —  A Corner of Tenth-Century Europe
 

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  1. = French stratification = Spanish estratificacion = Italian stratificazione; as stratify + -ation.
 

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/strætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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