superstrate
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1. superstrate - Noun
2. superstrate - Verb
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A layer or stratum adjacent and parallel to another.
(physics) The sudden increase in the electrical conductivity of some metals as their temperature falls to near absolute zero.
(photovoltaics) The covering on the sunny side of a photovoltaic (PV) module, providing protection for the PV materials from impact and environmental degradation while allowing maximum transmission of the appropriate wavelengths of the solar spectrum.
(linguistics) Alternative form of superstratum
superstrate (third-person singular simple present superstrates, present participle superstrating, simple past and past participle superstrated)
To arrange in parallel layers or strata.
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A few words from another Indo-Aryan language (see Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni ) are attested in documents from the ancient Mitanni kingdom in northern Mesopotamia and Syria and the Hittite kingdom in Anatolia.
However, there is dispute over the extent to which the terms "substrate" and "superstrate" are applicable to the genesis or the description of creole languages.
These servants and slaves would come to use the creole as an everyday vernacular, rather than merely in situations in which contact with a speaker of the superstrate was necessary.