"stratigraphy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /stɹəˈtɪɡ.ɹəfi/ [US], /ˈstɹæt.əˌɡɹæf.i/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-stratigraphy.wav [US] Forms: stratigraphies [plural]
Etymology: stratum + -graphy c. 1841–1865. Etymology templates: {{af|en|stratum|-graphy}} stratum + -graphy, {{root|en|ine-pro|*sterh₃-}} Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} stratigraphy (countable and uncountable, plural stratigraphies)
  1. (geology) The study of rock layers and the layering process (stratification). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geology Translations (study of rock layers): estratigrafia [feminine] (Catalan), 地層學 (Chinese Mandarin), 地层学 (dìcéngxué) (Chinese Mandarin), stratigrafia (Finnish), stratigraphie [feminine] (French), estratigrafía [feminine] (Galician), Stratigraphie [feminine] (German), στρωματογραφία (stromatografía) [feminine] (Greek), स्तरिकी (starikī) (Hindi), स्तरविन्यास (starvinyās) (Hindi), stratagrafaíocht [feminine] (Irish), stratygrafia [feminine] (Polish), estratigrafia [feminine] (Portuguese), стратигра́фия (stratigráfija) [feminine] (Russian), стратигра̀фија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), stratigràfija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), estratigrafía [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-stratigraphy-en-noun-Z0g76Z-p Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'study of rock layers': 93 7
  2. (archaeology) The layering of deposits, with newer remains overlaying older ones, forming a chronology of the site. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Archaeology
    Sense id: en-stratigraphy-en-noun-0KHWu1FN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -graphy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 59 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -graphy: 32 68 Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences
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  "word": "stratigraphy"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.