English-French translations for stratum

• couche
• classe
  Dans la majorité des nouveaux États membres, la seule classe sociale qui bénéficie de l’adhésion à l’Union est l’élite économique et politique nationale. In the majority of the new Member States, the only social stratum benefiting from EU accession is the national, economic and political elite.
• gisement
• strate
  Les pays qui ont adhéré en 2004 souffrent de l'absence totale d'une strate solide de petites et moyennes entreprises. The countries that joined in 2004 suffer from the complete absence of a strong stratum of small and medium-sized enterprises.
  Les pesticides, en particulier, ne devraient être autorisés que s’ils ne sont pas à même de pénétrer la strate supérieure de la terre et donc d’atteindre les eaux souterraines. Pesticides should only be approved specifically on condition that they cannot penetrate the top stratum of the earth and so reach the groundwater.
• stratum

Definition of stratum

• One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another
• A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout
• Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers
• A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status
• The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network

Related words

• substratum
• superstratum
• adstratum
• stratum corneum
• stratum spinosum
• stratum granulosum
• substratum language
• superstratum language
• upper stratum