LOESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loess mean? 

• LOESS (noun)
  The noun LOESS has 1 sense:

1. a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind

  Familiarity information: LOESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("loess" is a kind of...):

dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)

 Context examples 

A method to normalize Affymetrix arrays using loess, as defined in documents available at http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.9/bioc/html/affy.html

(Bioconductor caAffy Loess Normalization, NCI Thesaurus)