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Echelon vs Stratum - What's the difference?

echelon | stratum |

As nouns the difference between echelon and stratum

is that echelon is a level or rank in an organization, profession, or society while stratum is one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.

As a verb echelon

is to form troops into an echelon.

As a proper noun Echelon

is an international SIGINT network to monitor and gather intelligence from satellite trunk communications.

echelon

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
  • (military) A formation of troops, ships, etc. in diagonal parallel rows.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form troops into an echelon.

    • See also

    * (Echelon formation)

    Anagrams

    *

    stratum

    English

    Noun

    (strata)
  • One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
  • (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
  • Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
  • (biology) A layer of tissue.
  • A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
  • (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.

    • Synonyms

    * (layers of material arranged one on top of another) tier

    Related terms

    * stratification * stratify * stratosphere

    External links

    * (wikipedia "stratum") * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----