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mathhobbit ([personal profile] mathhobbit) wrote2011-04-23 11:31 am
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Substrate

I thought this meant "An underlying layer; a substratum" as in "When eating dried cranberries, steel cut oats are as good a substrate as rolled oats."  This meaning seems to be fading out, to be replaced by many more specialized meanings based on the original.