🇬🇧🇪🇸 stratification - estratificación : English Lesson
noun
Meaning of "stratification" ("estratificación"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.
Stratification means things are stacked or arranged in layers, like a sandwich with bread, cheese, tomatoes, and lettuce, or like different layers of rocks in a cliff, or even groups of people sorted into different levels.
Our sandwich had perfect stratification until my brother sat on it and invented the pancake sandwich.
My room shows clear stratification—top layer is clean clothes, middle layer is books, and bottom layer is fossils of old homework.
My laundry basket has sock stratification: fresh socks on top and ancient, slightly terrifying socks at the bottom.
The fridge shows dessert stratification—healthy snacks at eye level and the good stuff hiding behind the vegetables.
In geology, rock stratification lets scientists see Earth’s history in layers—like a giant birthday cake that took 4.5 billion years to bake.
By the river Anna brushed mud from a banded stone wall — an old stratification. She scooped a jar with a slice of stratification: dark silt, pale sand, root hair, and tapped the stratification in the glass. At home she pressed layers into a pan, cut to show the striped stratification. Her mother smiled at the tiny stratification.
🧑🎓 CEFR Level: C2 Proficient
This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.
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