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What does stratiform mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word stratiform? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Occurring in layers
  2. (geology) Descriptive of rocks with extensive horizontal development
  3. (meteorology) Descriptive of clouds with extensive horizontal development
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Richard Lindzen quoted it as being the effect of water vapour and stratiform clouds alone.
We added three sets of broadband solar radiometers mounted on an aircraft, which was flown over the site and above stratiform clouds at an altitude of 7 km.
The outlines of stratiform clouds are less distinct and often merge into layers with only slight vertical features.
The storm was cloaked like a hidden monster behind a stratiform cloud veil with a little fractus in the foreground.
Nickel, copper, cobalt and PGEs are the targets on this property, underlain by the Fox River sill, a stratiform ultramafic-mafic complex.
The most dangerous icing conditions are associated with low-level stratiform cloud forming in the onshore and slightly upslope flow.

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