Substrate meaning

sŭb'strāt'
The definition of a substrate is a layer underneath, or the surface where an organism grows.

An example of a substrate is a surface where an enzyme acts.

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A surface on which an organism grows or is attached.
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The material or substance on which an enzyme acts.
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The material or substance on which an enzyme acts.
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A surface on which an organism grows or is attached.
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(biology) A surface on which an organism grows or to which it is attached.

The rock surface of a rockpool is the substrate for a sessile organism such as a limpet.

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An indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population.
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A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
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An underlying layer; a substratum.
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The material or substance on which an enzyme acts.
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The surface on or in which plants, algae, or certain animals, such as barnacles or clams, live or grow. A substrate may serve as a source of food for an organism or simply provide support.
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The base layer of a structure such as a chip, multichip module (MCM), printed circuit board or disk platter. Silicon is the most widely used substrate for chips. Fiberglass (FR4) is mostly used for printed circuit boards, and ceramic is used for MCMs. Disk substrates are typically aluminum, glass or plastic.
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(biochemistry) What an enzyme acts upon.
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(linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
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(plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
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(construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
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The substrate of an aquarium can affect the water's acidity.

Stream substrate affects fish longevity.

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(obsolete) To strew or lay under.
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Having very slight furrows.
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An underlying layer; a substratum.
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Origin of substrate

  • From substratum
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Anglicization of substratum.
    From Wiktionary

Substrate Sentence Examples

  • Albert and Aquinas agree in declaring that the principle of individuation is to be found in matter, not, however, in matter as a formless substrate but in determinate matter (materia signata), which is explained to mean matter quantitatively determined in certain respects.

  • Any laminate floor can be installed as a floating floor, meaning that it isn't glued to the substrate.

  • Depending on the age of the tiles, this glue could come up quickly with little residue, or it could be hard and firmly cemented to the substrate.

  • Kant, taking it in the mistaken meaning of Locke, converted it into the a priori category of the permanent substrate beneath the changes of phenomena, and even went so far as to separate it from the thing in itself, as substantia phenomenon from noumenon.

  • Thirdly, on the grounds that logical thinking adds the notion of substance, as substrate, to experience of the physical, but not of the psychical, and that the most proper being of mind is will, he concludes that wills are not active substances, but substance-generating activities (" nicht thatige Substanzen sondern substanzerzeugende Thdtigkeiten," System, 429) What kind of metaphysics, then, follows from this compound of psychology and epistemology?

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