pərˌstreɪ
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| —n , pl -ta, -tums | |
| 1. | geology a layer or stratum overlying another layer or similar structure |
| 2. | linguistics Compare substratum the language of a conquering or colonizing population as it supplants that of an indigenous population, as for example French and English in the Caribbean |
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Superstratum
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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