stratum 的定义
plural stra·ta [strey-tuh, strat-uh], /ˈstreɪ tə, ˈstræt ə/, stra·tums.
- a layer of material, naturally or artificially formed, often one of a number of parallel layers one upon another: a stratum of ancient foundations.
- one of a number of portions or divisions likened to layers or levels: an allegory with many strata of meaning.
- Geology. a single bed of sedimentary rock, generally consisting of one kind of matter representing continuous deposition.
- Biology. a layer of tissue; lamella.
- Ecology. a layer of vegetation, usually of the same or similar height.
- a layer of the ocean or the atmosphere distinguished by natural or arbitrary limits.
- Sociology. a level or grade of a people or population with reference to social position, education, etc.: the lowest stratum of society.
- Linguistics. a major subdivision of linguistic structure.Compare level.
stratum 近义词
layer
更多stratum例句
- My eye catches the calm and smooth stratum of gray clouds that approach from the south.
- But their young deputies and ministerial director generals tended to be from this recently-returned, Western-educated stratum.
- People who do well do not deserve what they have gotten - they got it because they were born into the right social stratum.
- They were born into the wrong social stratum, or were handicapped by personal weaknesses that were not their fault.
- And lifting them carefully one off the other, he took out a deal box that had stood in the lowest stratum.
- It is only a lower stratum, but still it is a part of terra firma, and on no account is it to be ignored.
- They reached a depth in his nature which had been long untouched; a stratum, so to speak, which lay far beneath the surface.
- I thought that the frozen surface of the American woman thawed on the stratum soubrette.
- Reddish, very quartzose sandstone; from a stratum which dips to the south-east, at an angle of about ten or fifteen degrees.