Sentence examples for substrata from inspiring English sources
The word 'substrata' is correct and commonly used in written English
It is the plural form of 'substratum', which refers to the underlying layer or foundation upon which something is built or exists. Example: The archaeologists dug through several layers of substrata to uncover artifacts from the ancient civilization.
Sea anemones that are attached to firm substrata can creep slowly on their pedal disks or detach altogether, often in response to unfavourable physical conditions or to attack by predators.
These rocks occur on all continents both at the surface and as substrata.
The sublittoral is the environment beyond the low-tide mark and is often used to refer to substrata of the continental shelf, which reaches depths of between 150 and 300 metres.
Pennatulacean colonies move slowly across soft substrata by action of their inflatable peduncle (a stalk that attaches to the strata in the lower end and to the polyp body on the higher end).
Ecologically, mosses break down exposed substrata, releasing nutrients for the use of more complex plants that succeed them.
Rapid leg movements, often aided by the fanning action of setose antennae and the hydraulic tunneling motion of powerful pleopods, enable these torpedo-shaped crustaceans to swim through loose sandy substrata, feeding as they go.
To take one example, Gassendi assumes material objects must have some substratum composed of basic and indivisible elements ('principles'), and proposes that atoms, as the best candidates for the role of substrata, are the material principles in question.
First, consider substratum.
For Marcuse, we must look to "the substratum of the outcasts and outsiders, etc," for any social change (MacIntyre 1970 877).
This quality-less substratum is what Aristotle referred to simply as matter, or as it is often called, Prime Matter, in order to avoid confusion with the macroscopically identifiable, quality-laden, homogenous portions of everyday objects.
For example, according to Nicholas Jolley, Locke employs the concept of a real essence when he is addressing issues of scientific explanation and he appeals to substratum when he is discussing the general concept of what it is to be a thing (as opposed to a property or mode) (see Jolley 1999, pp. 70 78).
