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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Floating on the surface.
  2. n. The clear fluid above a sediment or precipitate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Swimming above; floating on the surface.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of a liquid Lying above a sediment or precipitate
  2. adj. Floating on the surface of a liquid
  3. n. The liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate; supernate
  4. n. Material that floats on the surface of a liquid

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Swimming above; floating on the surface.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate
  2. adj. of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate

Etymologies

  1. super- +‎ natant (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin supernatāns, supernatant-, present participle of supernatāre, to float : super-, super- + natāre, to swim; see snā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The cell culture supernatant was regularly tested for reverse transcriptase activity.”

    Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - Autobiography

  • “Following 5-10 min at 90°C, the hemoglobin in crude Fraction I was "cooked" and precipitated like mud, and the activity remained soluble in the supernatant.”

    Aaron Ciechanover - Autobiography

  • “Depending on the filter design, flow rates may have to be adjusted accordingly or the layer of supernatant water on the filter will get too high.”

    Chapter 5

  • “Filter cleaning starts with drainage of the supernatant water and dewatering of the top part of the sand bed.”

    1. Historical development and experience with water treatment

  • “Filter cleaning must be carried out once the supernatant water has reached its maximum permissible level; i.e., when maximum filter resistance of about 1 meter is attained for the designed filtration rate.”

    1. Historical development and experience with water treatment

  • “Missing supernatant drainage system ® long drainage periods for dewatering the filter box will affect the biology in the sand bed”

    Chapter 8

  • “The top should be covered by a layer of coarse stones to shade the supernatant water and thus prevent algal growth often experienced in pretreated water exposed to the sun.”

    8. Classification of roughing filters

  • “This is also true for the recommended inlet controlled slow sand filters which compensate the progressive headloss development by a gradual increase of the supernatant water level.”

    8. Classification of roughing filters

  • “In practice, the stock of supernatant water is drained through the filter at a continuously declining flow rate during the night and in the morning hours, the filter is refilled with pretreated water to reassume normal operation.”

    8. Classification of roughing filters

  • “The crude oil is left to stand for three days and the clarified supernatant oil (35.8 kg) is poured off leaving 11.2 kg of sediment”

    Chapter 6

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