strata
pronunciation
How to pronounce strata in British English:
UK [ˈstrɑ:tə]
How to pronounce strata in American English:
US [ˈstretə, ˈstrætə]
Word Origin
- strata
- strata: [16] Latin strātum meant ‘something laid down’. It was a noun use of the neuter past participle of sternere ‘spread out, lay down, stretch out’, which also produced English consternation [17] and prostrate [14]. Its use for the abstract concept of a ‘layer’ (in English more usually in the plural strata) is a modern Latin development. Other English words from the same source include stratify [17], stratosphere [20] (the ‘layer’ of the atmosphere above the troposphere), stratus [19] (cloud in thin ‘layer’- like form), and street.=> consternation, prostrate, straw, street
- strata (n.)
- c. 1700, plural of stratum.
Example
- 1. Of particular interest is the steep angle of the strata .
- 2. It could also hover down a cliff face to examine geological strata .
- 3. Those strata are laid down every season , like tree rings , bush explained .
- 4. The finger bone was found in strata dated to between 48000 and 30000 years ago ( the bone itself has not yet been dated ) . That means the creature was contemporary with both neanderthals and modern humans in the area .
- 5. These badlands , primarily highly eroded , exposed sedimentary strata , can look particularly strange when a temperature inversion results in a superior mirage , causing them to loom .