Usually means: Clear liquid above settled solids.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. supernatant: Merriam-Webster
  2. supernatant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. supernatant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. supernatant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. supernatant: Vocabulary.com
  6. supernatant: Wordnik
  7. supernatant: Wiktionary
  8. supernatant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. supernatant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. supernatant: Dictionary.com
  11. Supernatant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Supernatant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. supernatant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. supernatant: Rhymezone
  15. Supernatant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. supernatant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. supernatant: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. supernatant: FreeDictionary.org
  19. supernatant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. supernatant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. supernatant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. supernatant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. supernatant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. supernatant: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Supernatant: Biology dictionary
  2. Supernatant: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary
  3. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (supernatant)

adjective:  (chiefly of a liquid) Lying or floating above a denser fluid, or above a solid sediment or precipitate (which has been separated by crystallisation, centrifugation etc.).
noun:  The liquid that lies above a sediment or precipitate; supernate
noun:  Material that floats on the surface of a liquid

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