sediment

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum < sedeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɛdɪmənt/

Noun

sediment (plural sediments)

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

   The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.

Hyponyms

• dregs
• grounds
• grout
• settlings

Related terms

• sedimentary
• sedimentation

Translations

collection of small particles

• Armenian: մրուր (hy) (mrur)
• Bulgarian: утайка (bg) (utájka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉積物 (cmn), 沉积物 (cmn) (chénjīwù), 沉積 (cmn), 沉积 (cmn) (chénjī)

• Czech: usazenina (cs) f
• Esperanto: feĉo (eo)
• Finnish: sedimentti (fi)
• French: sédiment (fr) m
• German: Sediment (de) n, Satz (de) m

• Icelandic: botnfall n, syrja f, botnlag n, dreggjar n, set n, vatnborin jarðvegsefni n pl, vindborin jarðvegsefni n pl
• Italian: deposito (it), sedimento (it) m
• Japanese: 堆積物 (ja) (たいせきぶつ, taisekibutsu)
• Macedonian: талог (mk) (tálog) m
• Polish: osad (pl) m
• Portuguese: sedimento (pt) m
• Russian: отложение (ru) (otložénije) n, осадок (ru) (osádok) m, отстой (ru) (otstój) m
• Serbo-Croatian: талог (sh) (talog) m, talog (sh) m
• Spanish: sedimento (es) m

Verb

sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)

1. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
2. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

Translations

to deposit material as a sediment

• Esperanto: sedimentigi (eo)
• Finnish: sedimentoida (fi)

• French: sédimenter (fr)
• Russian: осаждать (ru) (osaždátʹ)

to be deposited as a sediment

• Dutch: sedimenteren (nl)
• Esperanto: sedimentiĝi (eo)
• Finnish: sedimentoitua (fi)

• French: sédimenter (fr)
• Russian: осаждаться (ru) (osaždátʹsja)

Anagrams

• end times
• enmisted
• midteens
• tidesmen

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sedǐment/
• Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment

Noun

sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling седѝмент)

1. sediment

Declension

    declension of sediment

	singular	plural
nominative	sedìment	sedimenti
genitive	sedimenta	sedimenāta / sedimēntā
dative	sedimentu	sedimentima
accusative	sediment	sedimente
vocative	sedimente	sedimenti
locative	sedimentu	sedimentima
instrumental	sedimentom	sedimentima