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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

analysis, arrangement, cataloging, categorization, classification, codification, delamination, desquamation, division, exfoliation, filing, flakiness, foliation, furfuration, grading, grouping, indexing, lamellation, lamination, pigeonholing, placement, ranging, ranking, rating, scaliness, sorting, subdivision, tabulation, taxonomy, typology

Dictionary Results for stratification:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

stratification
    n 1: the act or process or arranging persons into classes or
         social strata
    2: the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes
       within a group [syn: stratification, social
       stratification]
    3: forming or depositing in layers
    4: a layered configuration
    5: the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in
       order to preserve them or promote germination

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Stratification \Strat`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. stratification.]
   1. The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of
      being laid in the form of strata, or layers.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Physiol.) The deposition of material in successive layers
      in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a
      stratified appearance.
      [1913 Webster]

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