stratify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb divide society into social classes or castes
    • Income distribution often stratifies a society
  2. verb form layers or strata
    • The rock stratifies
  3. verb develop different social levels, classes, or castes
    • Society stratifies when the income gap widens
  4. verb form, arrange, or deposit in layers
    • The fish are stratified in barrels
    • The rock was stratified by the force of the water
    • A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses
  5. verb render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand
    • stratify seeds

WordNet


Strat"i*fy transitive verb
Etymology
Stratum + -fy: cf. F. stratifier.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Stratified ; present participle & verbal noun Stratifying
Definitions
  1. To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

Webster 1913