Stratosphere vs Stratify - What's the difference?
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(geology, obsolete) Collectively, those layers of the (l)’s (l) which primarily (l) .
* 1908 , Eduard Suess [aut.], Hertha Beatrice Coryn Sollas and William Johnson Sollas [trs.], The Face of the Earth (Oxford, at the Clarendon Press), volume 3, chapter 1, page 2
* 1909 , Eduard Suess [aut.], Hertha Beatrice Coryn Sollas and William Johnson Sollas [trs.], The Face of the Earth (Oxford, at the Clarendon Press), volume 4, chapter 15, page 546
(meteorology) The region of the uppermost atmosphere where temperature increases along with the altitude due to the absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation by ozone. The stratosphere extends from the tropopause (10–15 kilometers) to approximately 50 kilometers, where it is succeeded by the mesosphere.
* 1909 , Scientific Abstracts , A., volume 12, page 208 (heading)
To become separated out into distinct layers or strata.
To separate out into distinct layers or strata.
Stratosphere is a related term of stratify.
As a noun stratosphere
is (geology|obsolete) collectively, those layers of the (l)’s (l) which primarily (l).As a verb stratify is
to become separated out into distinct layers or strata.stratosphere
English
Noun
(en noun)- So great is the part played by stratified deposits in the structure of the earth’s crust that we might be tempted to speak of the stratosphere'' of the earth in contradistinction to the ''scoriosphere of the moon.
- The stratosphere , or younger sedimentary envelope has been formed almost entirely at the expense of the Sal envelope.
- Variation in height of the stratosphere (isothermal layer).
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Verb
(en-verb)- In this cut you can see how the sedimentary rock layers have been clearly stratified .
- Even without a pronounced social class system, people in a large society tend to stratify .