Crossword clues for substrata
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Substratum \Sub*stra"tum\, n.; pl. Substrata. [L. substratus, p. p. of substernere to strew under; sub under + sternere to strew. See Stratum.]
That which is laid or spread under; that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another; specifically (Agric.), the subsoil.
(Metaph.) The permanent subject of qualities or cause of phenomena; substance.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of substratum English)
Wikipedia
Substrata is an ambient music album by Biosphere, released in 1997 by All Saints Records. It is considered to be a classic ambient album, consistently in the top 5 in surveys on the Hyperreal ambient mailing list.
It is Biosphere's first truly ambient album, and has a theme of cold, of mountains and glaciers and running water. Sounds of howling wind and creaking wood, although infrequently employed, create a chilling soundscape interrupted by sonorous but quietly suspenseful music.
In 2001 the album was re-released in a digitally remastered format with a second disc featuring a soundtrack for Dziga Vertov's 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera, as Substrata 2.
Substrata may refer to:
- Substrata (linguistics), plural of substratum, a language influenced by another
- Substrata (gardening), another term for subsoil
- Substrata (album), an ambient music album by Biosphere
- Earth's substrata, the geologic layering of the Earth
- Substrata 2, 2001 album by Biosphere
Usage examples of "substrata".
The acknowledgment of this necessity, however, must not prevent us from recognizing the fact that, as a result of this restriction, modern scientific research, which has penetrated far into the dynamic substrata of nature, finds itself in the peculiar situation that it is not at all guided by its own concepts, but by the very forces it tries to detect.
She was still impressed by the fact that any understanding could pass between entities of such different basic substrata: a magnetically shaped plasma talking to walking packets of water.
The substrata through which his subterranean explorers crawl are as real as Verne can make them, a realness certified by an impressive display of scientific terminology.