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overlayered

overlayered adjective: having a layer added on top.

Adjective

overlayered (not comparable)

  1. Having a layer added on top
    • The supernatant, containing the lipid droplets, was adjusted to 20% sucrose and overlayered with 5% sucrose, and HLM. Lipid droplets were floated to the top of the discontinuous sucrose gradient using a Beckman SW40 rotor (28,000 rpm, 30 min) and recovered by tube slicing.2015 August 13, “Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein (MTP) Associates with Cytosolic Lipid Droplets in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of overlayered

From over- + layered.

Questions about overlayered

What does overlayered mean?
Overlayered means having a layer added on top.
What part of speech is overlayered?
Overlayered is an adjective.

Words near overlayered in the dictionary

  1. overlay
  2. overlay scrollbar
  3. overlay scrollbars
  4. overlayed
  5. overlayer
  6. overlayered
  7. overlayers
  8. overlaying
  9. overlayings
  10. overlays
  11. overlazy

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