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Verb
/ˈsedəmənt/,
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sediments, plural;
  1. Settle as sediment

  2. (of a liquid) Deposit a sediment

  3. Deposit (something) as a sediment
    • - the DNA was sedimented by centrifugation
    • - sedimented waste
Noun
  1. Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs

  2. Particulate matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land or the bottom of a body of water, and may in time become consolidated into rock

  1. deposit as a sediment
  2. matter that has been deposited by some natural process
  3. settle as sediment
  4. (sedimentary) aqueous: produced by the action of water
  5. Sediment is naturally-occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of fluids such as wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particle itself.
  6. Lees refers to deposits of dead yeast or residual yeast and other particles that precipitate, or are carried by the action of "fining", to the bottom of a vat of wine after fermentation and aging. The yeast deposits in beer brewing are known as trub. ...
  7. Sedimentary rock is a type of rock that is formed by sedimentation of material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water. ...
  8. Sedimentation is the tendency for particles in suspension to settle out of the fluid in which they are entrained, and come to rest against a barrier. ...
  9. (Sedimentation (water treatment)) Sedimentation is a physical water treatment process used to settle out suspended solids in water under the influence of gravity.
  10. (sedimentary) A form of rock made by the deposition and compression of small particles
  11. (Sedimentary) Formed by deposits of sediment (material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers).
  12. (sedimentary) Rocks formed of sediments laid down in successive strata or layers. The materials of which they are formed are derived from preexisting rocks or the skeletal remains of sea creatures.
  13. (sedimentary) A class of rocks that are formed from sediments eg, sandstone or from precipitation of chemicals from solution eg, limestone.
  14. (sedimentary) a layered rock, formed through the accumulation and solidification of sediments, which may originally be made up of minerals, rock debris, or animal or vegetable matter
  15. As in sedimentary rock. A rock made up of sediments, or rock fragments, laid down in water or deposited by wind or ice. The fragments can be microscopic, like the clays in a shale, or large, like the boulders in a coarse conglomerate. Sandstone, shale, and limestone are common sedimentary rocks. ...
  16. (Sedimentary) rocks formed by erosion, transport and deposition.
  17. (Sedimentary) A geological term for water or wind worn material which has settled and become consolidated
  18. (Sedimentary) Describes rocks which have been produced by sedimentation, the settling of particles in water, although the term can apply to rocks formed by settling in air (from volcanic eruptions or wind-blown dusts and also deposition by rivers and ice sheets).
  19. (Sedimentary) Rocks made up from sediment  (bits of dust, rocks, fossils and general rubbish) that settle and become crushed into one rock over thousands of years
  20. (Sedimentary) environment The environment in which sediment accumulates.
  21. (Sedimentary) formed from sediments laid down by water or wind, then compacted and cemented underground. Not found in Atlanta area; nearest localities are Cartersville and Macon.
  22. (sedimentary) (authigenic, detrital, evaporite,
  23. (sedimentary) Composed of sediment. One of the three principal rock types, along with igneous* and metamorphic*.
  24. (sedimentary) of or pertaining to stone which has been formed from loose deposits which have been subsequently compacted by the weight of overlying deposits or water.
  25. (sedimentary) rocks that are formed when layers of sand, clay & bits of rock are laid down by water & turned to rock, often contain fossils