Definition of Substrate

1. Noun. The substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment.

Generic synonyms: Substance

2. Noun. A surface on which an organism grows or is attached. "The gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants"
Exact synonyms: Substratum
Generic synonyms: Surface

3. Noun. Any stratum or layer lying underneath another.
Exact synonyms: Substratum
Generic synonyms: Stratum

4. Noun. An indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population. "The Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English"
Exact synonyms: Substratum
Generic synonyms: Indigenous Language

Definition of Substrate

1. n. A substratum.

2. a. Having very slight furrows.

3. v. t. To strew or lay under anything.

Definition of Substrate

1. Noun. (biochemistry) What an enzyme acts upon. ¹

2. Noun. (biology) A surface on which an organism grows or to which it is attached. ¹

3. Noun. An underlying layer; a substratum. ¹

4. Noun. (linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers. ¹

5. Noun. (context: plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties. ¹

6. Noun. (context: construction) A surface to which a substance adheres. ¹

7. Noun. The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Substrate

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Substrate

substitutive
substitutive nomenclature
substitutively
substitutivity
substitutor
substitutors
substoichiometric
substorm
substorms
substract
substracted
substracting
substractive
substracts
substrata
substrate (current term)
substrated
substrategic
substrates
substratification
substratifications
substratum
substratums
substream
substreams
substring
substrings
substruct
substructed
substructing

Literary usage of Substrate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"According to this theory a certain amount of enzyme can act only on a limited amount of substrate; after this quantity is reached any excess of substrate ..."

2. An Introduction to Philosophy by Orlin Ottman Fletcher (1913)
"Substance and substrate. — Many thinkers have conceived substance as a substrate in which qualities inhere, ... This substrate is undetermined and unknown. ..."

3. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Edward Bradford Titchener, Margaret Floy Washburn, Julia Henrietta Gulliver (1897)
"(a) The Separation of Ethical Ideas from their substrate. The gradual severance of individual ethical ideas from the substrate of moral personality and ..."

4. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1902)
"(a) The Separation of Ethical Ideas from their substrate. The gradual severance of individual ethical ideas from the substrate of moral personality and ..."

5. Principles of Physiological Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904)
"The Differentiation of Mental Functions and of their Physical substrate The organic ... The substrate of the elementary mental functions is here entirely ..."

6. Symposium on Potential Productivity of Field Crops Under Different Environments by W. H. Smith, International Rice Research Institute (1983)
"We show how to calculate the amount of substrate required for synthesis, ... Knowing the substrate requirement for growth, we can compute the yield of a ..."

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