an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
A stratum of society is a group of people in it who are similar in their education, income, or social status. It was an enormous task that affected every stratum of society
The distance a host running the xntpd time daemon is from an external source of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) A stratum 1 server has direct access to an external source of UTC, such as a radio clock synchronized to a standard time signal broadcast In general, a stratum n server is n-1 network hops away from a stratum 1 server For example, a stratum 4 server is 3 hops away from a stratum 1 server Also, a stratum n server is at a higher stratum than a stratum n-1 server For example, a stratum 3 server is at a higher stratum than a stratum 2 server, and at a lower stratum than a stratum 4 server See also ``time daemon''
A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds
1 the presence of a distinctive vertical range within a plant community, whether in the distribution of leaf mass, plant individuals, or species, or in any other canopy feature As cited in