- nounsediment (noun) · sediments (plural noun)
- matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs:"the ice freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork"
- geologyparticulate 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:"there is a huge concentration of sediment in deltas" · "it takes hundreds of thousands of years to turn the sediments into carbonate rock"
verbsediment (verb) · sediments (third person present) · sedimented (past tense) · sedimented (past participle) · sedimenting (present participle)- settle as sediment:"the erythrocytes were allowed to sediment within the syringe"
- (of a liquid) deposit a sediment:"heparinated blood was allowed to sediment at room temperature"
- deposit (something) as a sediment:"the DNA was sedimented by centrifugation"
Originmid 16th century: from French sédiment or Latin sedimentum ‘settling’, from sedere ‘sit’.
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