superstrate

plural superstrates

1. A layer or stratum adjacent and parallel to another.
2. natural sciencesThe sudden increase in the electrical conductivity of some metals as their temperature falls to near absolute zero.
3. 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.
4. alternativehuman sciencesAlternative form of superstratum.

   However influential Sanskrit and Pāli were, then, linguistically both were limited to a “superstrate” role here: nowhere did they replace the native tongues of Southeast Asia.

   2014, Colin Renfrew, Paul Bahn, The Cambridge World Prehistory, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN

   Antonyms: substrate

present singular third person superstrates · participle present superstrating · participle past superstrated · past superstrated

1. To arrange in parallel layers or strata.