Stratification
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Stratification is the building up of layers of deposits, and can have several variations of meaning:
- Social stratification, is the dividing of a society into levels based on wealth or power.
- Stratification in archaeology are the layers in which objects are found.
- Stratification (botany).
- See stratified sampling for the use of stratification in survey sampling. The term "stratified sampling" is also refers a method of variance reduction in Monte Carlo methods.
- In logic, stratification is a layering of predicate symbols to guarantee unique interpretations and to avoid paradoxical definitions like Russell's paradox.
- Stratification is a separate meaning as applied to manifolds, and singularity theory, of a decomposition into pieces with specified relationships on fitting together.
- In music stratification is a layering of musical texture or the independent operating of more than one parameter simultaneously (see auditory stream).
- In meteorology, atmospheric stratification is the division of the atmosphere into distinct layers, each with specific properties such as temperature or humidity.
See also: Destratification, lake stratification.
