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Definition of Sediment

1. Verb. Deposit as a sediment.

2. Noun. Matter that has been deposited by some natural process.

3. Verb. Settle as sediment.

Definition of Sediment

1. n. The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

Definition of Sediment

1. Noun. A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sediment

1. to settle to the bottom of a liquid [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Sediment

1. A precipitate, especially one that is formed spontaneously. Origin: L. Sedimentum This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sediment

sedge frogs sedge warbler sedge warblers sedge wren sedged sedgelike sedges sedgier sedgiest sedgy

sedile sedilia sedilias sedilium sediment (current term) sedimentable sedimental sedimentary sedimentary cataract sedimentary clay

sedimentary rock sedimentary rocks sedimentate sedimentation sedimentation coefficient sedimentation constant sedimentation rate sedimentation velocity sedimentations

Literary usage of Sediment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dams and Rivers: Primer on the Downstream Effects of Dams by Michael Collier, Robert H. Webb, John C. Schmidt (1998)
"Calculating a sediment budget is similar to balancing a check book: one attempts to account for all sediment entering, leaving, and stored in a reach of ..."

2. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"The sediment is ordinarily collected Fic.~i47. ... The collection of the sediment by means of the centrifuge, however, is much preferable, since the process ..."

3. Climate and Time in Their Geological Relations: A Theory of Secular Changes by James Croll (1875)
"Alfred Tylor on tho sediment of tho Mississippi.—The Law which determines tho Rate of Denudation.—The Globe becoming less oblate. ..."

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