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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sediment \Sed"i*ment\, noun [F. s['e]diment, L. sedimentum a settling, fr. sedere to sit, to settle. See {Sit}.]
1. The matter which subsides to the bottom, from water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
2. (Geol.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sediment
noun: matter deposited by some natural process [syn: {deposit}]
verb
1: deposit as a sediment
2: settle as sediment
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "sediment": alluvion, alluvium, ash, bottoms, cinder, clinker, debris, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, draff, dregs, drift, dross, ember, feces, froth, grounds, lees, loess, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, remains, residue, residuum, scoria, scree, scum, sedimentate, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smut, soot, sublimate
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