surrogate
Surrogate (Latin surrogatus "replacement") stands for:
- generally a substitute that replaces another substance in a manufacturing process
special:
- a food surrogate , an inferior substitute for a high quality food
- a vaccine made from harmless or weakened ( attenuated ) pathogens, which nevertheless makes you immune to the main pathogen, see e.g. B. Vaccinia Virus
- a substitute partner who acts as a sexual companion in a therapeutic context, see surrogate partnership
- in jurisprudence an object that takes the place of another, see surrogation
- High-surrogate and low-surrogate , two data words in UTF-16 coding
- an indie rock band from Berlin, see surrogate (band)
- a surrogate key (also substitute or substitute key) as a database key
- a surrogate proxy
See also:
- Surrogates - My Second Me (film)
Wiktionary: surrogate - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
