Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Floating on the surface.
- noun The clear fluid above a sediment or precipitate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swimming above; floating on the surface.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Swimming above; floating on the surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a liquid Lying above a
sediment orprecipitate - adjective Floating on the
surface of a liquid - noun The
liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate;supernate - noun Material that floats on the surface of a liquid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the clear liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate
- adjective of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The cell culture supernatant was regularly tested for reverse transcriptase activity.
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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.
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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 2000
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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.
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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 1996
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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.
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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 1996
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Missing supernatant drainage system ® long drainage periods for dewatering the filter box will affect the biology in the sand bed
Chapter 8 1996
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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.
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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 1995
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