Sediment synonyms

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silt
Silt is a material of the earth made up of particles that are somewhere in between the sizes of sand and clay, often found at the bottom of rivers and bays.
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lees
(Sailing) plural form of lee
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scum
Refuse or worthless matter.
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dross
Waste or impure matter:
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settlings
Plural form of settling
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dregs
The particles of solid matter that settle at the bottom in a liquid; lees
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grounds
(Law) Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce."
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solids
Plural form of solid
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sand
Sand is defined as small, loose, gritty particles of rock, or an area with these small particles.
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alluvium
Sediment deposited by flowing water, as in a riverbed, flood plain, or delta.
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loess
A very fine grained silt or clay, thought to have formed as the result of grinding by glaciers and to have been deposited by the wind. Most loess is believed to have originated during the Pleistocene Epoch from areas of land covered by glaciers and from desert surfaces.
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grit
Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
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gritty matter
matter that has been deposited by some natural process
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soot
A black substance consisting chiefly of carbon particles formed by the incomplete combustion of burning matter
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deposit
(--- Geol., Mining) Sand, clay, mineral masses, etc. deposited by the action of wind, water, volcanic eruption, or ice
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debris
(Geology) An accumulation of relatively large rock fragments:
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precipitate
A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
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trash
Broken, discarded, or worthless things; rubbish; refuse
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crap
Cheap or shoddy material.
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feculence
The state of being feculent.
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gunk
(Countable) A member of the gunk subculture.
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hypostasis
(Philosophy) The substance, essence, or underlying reality.
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recrement
(Biology) A bodily secretion that is reabsorbed into the blood
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refuse
(Obsolete) refusal
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remains
All that is left after other parts have been taken away, used up, or destroyed.
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residuum
(Fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: , where denotes the t-norm function and denotes the supremum.
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scoria
Rough, crusty, solidified lava containing numerous vesicles that originated as gas bubbles in the lava while it was still molten.
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sedimentation
The depositing or formation of sediment
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settling
(Usually plural) Dregs; sediment.
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slag
(Chiefly Brit., Slang) A worthless, contemptible person
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sludge
Sludge is a substance that is between solid and liquid form.
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whole (antonym)
A thing complete in itself, or a complete organization of integrated parts; a unity, entirety, or system
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dreg
Sediment in a liquid.
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precipitation
A precipitate
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leftover (related)
Food left over from one meal and, often, eaten at a later meal
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residue
(Law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
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near-surface (related)
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sedimentary (related)
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evaporite (related)
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clastic (related)
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seawater (related)
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subsurface (related)
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aquifer (related)
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tephra (related)
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speleothems (related)
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seabed (related)
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subglacial (related)
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groundwater (related)
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nearshore (related)
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terrigenous (related)
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powder
Powder is a dry, dusty substance.
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Sediment Sentence Examples

  • The river carries its sediment westward.

  • The waters between these beaches and the mainland are gradually filling with sediment and changing into tidal marsh.

  • When the slope down which a river runs has become very slight, it is unable to carry the sediment brought from higher regions nearer its source, and consequently the lower portion of the river valley becomes filled with alluvial deposits; and since in times of flood the rush of water in the high regions tears off and carries down a greater quantity of sediment than usual, the river spreads this also over the lower valley where the plain is flooded, because the rush of water is checked, and the stream in consequence drops its extra load.

  • On account of the rapid deposition of sediment near the main channel at times of overflow, the flood plain, as is normally the case on mature valley floors, has a lateral slope of as much as 5, 10, or even 12 ft.

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