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NEFA

NEFA is the initialism of non-esterified fatty acid.

NEFA is the initialism of North-East Frontier Agency.

Meaning of non-esterified fatty acid

Noun

non-esterified fatty acid (plural non-esterified fatty acids, abbreviation NEFA)

  1. Any fatty acid which occurs free, rather than esterified with glycerol to form a glyceride or other lipid; usually as the result of hydrolysis
    Synonyms:
    free fatty acid

Forms of NEFA

pluralNEFAs

Questions about NEFA

What is NEFA the initialism of?
NEFA is the initialism of non-esterified fatty acid.

Words near NEFA in the dictionary

  1. neezes
  2. neezies
  3. neezing
  4. neezy
  5. nef
  6. NEFA
  7. nefand
  8. nefandous
  9. nefarious
  10. nefariously
  11. nefariousness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NEFA (page history and authors); non-esterified fatty acid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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