Substrate

Substrate may refer to:

Physical layers
  • Substrate (biology), the natural environment in which an organism lives, or the surface or medium on which an organism grows or is attached
    • Substrate (locomotion), the surface over which an organism locomotes
    • Substrate (marine biology), the earthy material that exists in the bottom of a marine habitat, like dirt, rocks, sand, or gravel
  • Substrate (building), natural stone, masonry surface, ceramic and porcelain tiles
  • Substrate (chemistry), the reactant which is consumed during a catalytic or enzymatic reaction
    • Substrate (biochemistry), a molecule that is acted upon by an enzyme
  • Substrate (materials science), the material on which a process is conducted
  • Substrate (printing), the base material that images will be printed onto
  • Substrate (vivarium), the material used in the bottom of a vivarium or terrarium
  • Printed circuit board (PCB), or more specifically, the electrically insulating portion of a PCB structure, such as fiberglass bound together with epoxy cement
  • Stratum on which another geologic stratum lies
  • Wafer (electronics), also called a substrate

Other uses
  • Substratum (linguistics), in linguistics, a language that influences but is supplanted by a second language
  • Neural substrate, in neuroscience, the set of brain structures that underlies a specific behavior or psychological state
gollark: Computer science.
gollark: > I avoid CS like the plague nowWhy?
gollark: Vaguely considering switching to chemistry instead of CS, since I technically *can* do that until term actually starts.
gollark: I'm doing maths/further maths/physics/computer science next year, personally.
gollark: oh dear.

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