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n. Material that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees.

n. Solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice.

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

v. To deposit material as a sediment.

v. To be deposited as a sediment.

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

n. The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

n. The matter which settles to the bottom of water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs; in geology, detrital material mechanically suspended in or deposited from water; the material of which the sedimentary rocks are composed.

n. In a steam-boiler, an internal deposit of precipitate from the feed-water, or of solid matter mechanically present, which lies as a loose or soft mud on the heating surfaces: distinguished from scale, which is a hard crystalline coating adhering to the metal.

To allow to settle; settle: said of matter in suspension in a liquid.

v. settle as sediment

v. deposit as a sediment

n. matter that has been deposited by some natural process

"E. coli was deteced in sediment samples but no standards exist for determining human health risks from E. coli in soil or sediment."

sedimented    sediments   

settle down    settle    situate    deposit    fix    posit   

latericeous sediment   

sedimentary    sedimentation   

settlings    lees    dregs    deposit   

impediment   

silt    stratum    débris    sandstone    loam    soot    gravel    contaminant    deposit    mud