sediment
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Pronunciation[change]
Noun[change]
- Sediment is something that settles at the bottom of a liquid.
- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
Verb[change]
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- (transitive) If you sediment something, you deposit it as a sediment.
- (intransitive) If something sediments, it is deposited as a sediment.