Substrate in a sentence as a noun

In fact, I came up the idea for the startup while I was waiting 4 months for a substrate to be synthesized! 2.

At some level we have to trust a substrate of computing to get anything done. Stallman's work to make that substrate as trustworthy as possible was very farsighted.

I think maybe the issue here isn't so much EventMachine, but the idea of using EventMachine as a substrate for frameworks like Sinatra and Rails. That idea is whack, I agree.

If the FBI wants carriers to install software on their network devices, the FBI is implementing regulatory law as code in the network substrate. The source and its build and development process must be public.

Trackballs offer the added tactile benefits of inertia and operating on an infinite substrate. - Dials, wheels.

The octopus is a great example for a radically different neurological substrate. Given enough time and a little bit of luck, some funghi too might evolve a mind of their own as Fuligo Septica already shows some capacity for problem-solving behavior.

If the powers that be can implement DRM as they want, they control computing from the substrate-up and we've all swallowed the Blue Pill. However if the public has a vehement reaction against DRM, then the population is effectively inoculated against implementing such tools for themselves so they can hold authorities and website operators to account.

A great many of red army soldiers died when building a concrete substrate underneath the ruined reactor, which prevented the underground water from being contaminated by radioactive pollution. In contrast, the Japan government hasn't been capable to do this for the past two years, which is apparently irresponsible and shockingly incompetent.

Sufferers of mood disorders do not all have the same genetically influenced biological substrate for their difficulties in mood regulation. So part of medical practice in dealing with depression is still quite empirical--prescribe a first-line medicine, and see if it works, and then try something else if the first medicine doesn't work or if it has debilitating side effects.

They are not conjured into existence by the wave of a mutational wand, but have to have some substrate in existing functionality, which is why species exist: they are are islands of relative genetic viability in a sea of chaos. An incremental move away from the stable centre will in general be detrimental to the organism, and it will, in the overwhelmingly most common case, require many small, fortunate steps to add a genuinely new capability.

Substrate definitions

noun

the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment

noun

a surface on which an organism grows or is attached; "the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants"

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noun

any stratum or layer lying underneath another

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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"

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