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What is the noun for substratum?

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substrate
  1. (biochemistry) What an enzyme acts upon.
  2. (biology) A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
  3. An underlying layer; a substratum.
  4. (linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
  5. (plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
  6. (construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
  7. The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “The researcher prepared a glass substrate, which served as the base for growing the thin film.”
substratum
  1. A layer that lies underneath another.
  2. (figuratively) The underlying cause or basis of something.
  3. (linguistics) A substrate.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Rooted plants with three or four fully expanded leaves were transferred to a peat substratum and acclimatized in a glasshouse.”
      “Such fishes can offset costs of transport using burst-and-glide behavior when swimming in the water column and ground effect near the substratum.”
      “One was in contact with the substratum, and the other formed a dome within the marginal ossicles, thus creating a body cavity.”
substratism
  1. (linguistics) The theory that creoles take their structure from their substrate languages.
substratist
  1. (linguistics) One who believes that creoles take their structure from their substrate languages.
substratophile
  1. (linguistics) A proponent of substratism.
substratophilia
  1. (linguistics) Enthusiastic support for substratism.
substratophobia
  1. (linguistics) Vehement opposition to substratism.
substratophobe
  1. (linguistics) One who rejects substratism.
substratomaniac
  1. (linguistics) A devoted substratist.
substrates
  1. plural of substrate
  2. (health) The calorie dense nutrients including carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Furthermore, QD devices have lased at 1.3 m, a necessary attribute for access network communication systems that use GaAs substrates.”
      “After weighing, oven-drying, and reweighing the seeds, we found that seeds lost moisture at a similar rate in the two substrates.”
      “Current efforts are aimed at understanding the regulation of these kineses and at identifying their substrates.”
substratomaniacs
  1. plural of substratomaniac
substratophiles
  1. plural of substratophile
substratophobes
  1. plural of substratophobe
substratists
  1. plural of substratist
substrata
  1. plural of substratum
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is the hydrogen ion component that is toxic, affecting cell membranes, acidifying substrata, and leaching metals like calcium.”
      “Bromley redefined Trypanites to include all blind, simple, unbranched borings in hard substrata with a single opening to the surface.”
      “Paleocene fossil outcrops abound in the glauconite rich gray clay substrata of the creek banks exposed beneath the deep rich surface soils.”
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