strategy (strateji)

[ Stratiotes In some cases the apparent stratification seems to be of the nature of an imperfect cleavage, there having been a certain amount of rearrangement of the particles of the rock parallel to the planes of deposition. See cuts under Artesian and erosion. 3. In physiol., the thickening of a cell-wall by the deposition of succe ive thin layers of formed material; also, the arrangement of the layers so deposited. It is now known that stratification is due to a subsequent change in the amount of water of organization present in particular parts of the [cell-]wall. Be ey , Botany, p. 33. 4. In elect., the appearance presented by an electric discharge, or a series of rapid discharges, in a rarefied gas, light and dark bands or str iæ being produced. stratified (str at'i-fid), p. a. Arranged or disposed in layers or strata: as, stratified rocks. See cut under erosion. - Stratified cartilage, ord i nary white fibrocartilage. - Stratified epithelium. See camped army, lit. 'scattered, spread' (=L. str a-epithelium gratified thallus, in license thallus in tus, scattered, spread), stratum ), + άγειν, lead (see agent ).] 1. The science of combining and employing the means which the different branches of the art of war afford, for the purpose of forming projects of operations and of directing great military move ments; the art of moving troops so as to be enabled either to dispense with a battle or to deliver one with the greatest advantage and with the most decisive results; generalship. In strategy three things demand especial consideration: (1) the base of operations, or line from which an advance upon an enemy; (2) the objective, or objective point, the point which it aims to po e , or the object which it strives to attain; (3) the line of operations, or that line which an army must pa over to attain its objective point. When an army a umes a strictly defensive attitude, the base of operations becomes the line of defense, and in a which or are disposed in one more layers, thus producing stratification. See heterom erous, (c) (2).