sediment

See also: Sediment and sédiment

English

Etymology

From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/
• Rhymes: -ɛdɪmənt

Noun

sediment (countable and uncountable, 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
• sedimentaceous
• sedimentitious

Translations

collection of small particles

• Armenian: մրուր (hy) (mrur)
• Bulgarian: ута́йка (bg) (utájka)
• Catalan: sediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉積物／沉积物 (zh) (chénjīwù), 沉积物 (zh) (chénjīwù), 沉積／沉积 (zh) (chénjī), 沉积 (zh) (chénjī)

• Czech: usazenina f
• Esperanto: feĉo
• Finnish: sedimentti (fi), kerrostuma (fi)
• French: sédiment (fr) m
• Galician: sedimento (gl) m
• Georgian: დანალექი (danaleki), ნალექი (naleki)
• German: Sediment (de) n, Satz (de) m, Bodensatz (de) m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: botnfall (is) n, syrja f, botnlag n, dreggjar n, set (is) n, vatnborin jarðvegsefni n pl, vindborin jarðvegsefni n pl
• Irish: dríodar m
• Italian: deposito (it), sedimento (it) m
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• Japanese: 堆積物 (たいせきぶつ, taisekibutsu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: faex f
• Macedonian: талог m (talog)
• Maori: waipara, parakiwai (from a flood)
• Mongolian: тунадас (mn) (tunadas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sediment n

  Nynorsk: sediment n

• Polish: osad (pl) m
• Portuguese: sedimento (pt) m
• Russian: отложе́ние (ru) n (otložénije), оса́док (ru) m (osádok), отсто́й (ru) m (otstój)
• Serbo-Croatian: талог m, talog (sh) m
• Spanish: sedimento (es) m
• Tagalog: tining (tl)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉淀 (zh) (chéndiàn)

• Esperanto: sedimentigi
• Finnish: sedimentoida
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• French: sédimenter (fr)
• Mongolian: тунаах (tunaax)
• Russian: осажда́ть (ru) (osaždátʹ)
• Spanish: sedimentar (es)

to be deposited as a sediment

• Dutch: sedimenteren (nl)
• Esperanto: sedimentiĝi
• Finnish: sedimentoitua
• French: sédimenter (fr)
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• Mongolian: тунах (mn) (tunax)
• Russian: осажда́ться (ru) (osaždátʹsja)
• Spanish: sedimentar (es)

Anagrams

• Edmisten, end items, end times, enmisted, midteens, tidesmen

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Czech

Noun

1. sediment

Synonyms

• usazenina

Related terms

• See sese

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌseː.diˈmɛnt/
• Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimenten)

1. sediment

Derived terms

• sedimentaanvoer
• sedimentafzetting
• sedimentgesteente

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment or sedimenter, definite plural sedimenta or sedimentene)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment, definite plural sedimenta)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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