SEDIMENT
\sˈɛdɪmənt], \sˈɛdɪmənt], \s_ˈɛ_d_ɪ_m_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of SEDIMENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
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Sedimentary.
By Oddity Software
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The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
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Sedimentary.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The solid substance which settles at the bottom of a liquid; dregs; lees; settlings; in geology, matter deposited, as by water.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Hypostasis, insoluble material which sinks to the bottom of a liquid; that which rises to the surface is called epistasis or scum.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A deposit formed by the precipitation of some one or more of the substances held in solution or suspension by a liquid. That which is formed in urine, at the time of cooling, has been called Hypos'tasis. Hyposte'ma, Residen'tia, Subsiden'tia, (F.) Depot de Purine. This sediment or deposit varies in different states of the system. In calculous affections, it is one of the most important objects of attention.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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