Substrate

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The word substrate can mean the following:

Substrate (biochemistry), a molecule which is acted upon by an enzyme

Substrate (printing), the base material that images will be printed onto.

Wafer (electronics), in the semiconductor industry, a wafer of material, normally a single crystal, upon which semiconductor devices can be fabricated

Substrate, in biology, a natural environment in which an organism lives

Neural substrate, in neuroscience, the set of brain structures that underlies a specific behavior or psychological state

Substratum, in linguistics, refers to linguistic influences that are transmitted from the language originally spoken in a given region into a new language; see also language shift

Substrate, in plating, a metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties

Substrate, in construction, a surface to which a substance is adhered

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