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The phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
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sedimentation
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid, either to concentrate the solid or to clarify the liquid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sedimentation \Sed`i*men*ta"tion\, n. The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sedimentation is a physical water treatment process using gravity to remove suspended solids from water. Solid particles entrained by the turbulence of moving water may be removed naturally by sedimentation in the still water of lakes and oceans. Settling ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, from sediment + -ation .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating [syn: deposit , alluviation ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN erythrocyte ▪ The scan score correlated with all laboratory tests generally accepted to reflect active gut inflammation except for the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. ▪ Data in the Table show that the scan score correlated ...
Usage examples of sedimentation.
From data afforded by the eruptions in Java and in other fields where the quantity of volcanic dust contributed to the seas can be estimated, the writer is disposed to believe that the average rate of sedimentation on the sea floors is twice as great as the estimate above given.
On the floors of the seas and oceans we have not only the region where the greater part of the sedimentation is effected, but that in which the work assumes the greatest variety.
By the beginning of the Late Cretaceous, the inland sea was well established, and the limy waters produced chalky sedimentation over a wide area, from Kansas to Saskatchewan and from New Mexico to Minnesota.
This pyrophyllite is a quite soft secondary mineral with a count of only 3 on the Mohs scale and was formed by sedimentation about 2.
Cheffy was planning to draw water for drinking and washing via a sedimentation system a mile upstream, to replace the crude bucket-hoists they still depended on.
On glancing upstream Lex saw that two or three of the team who had been constructing the sedimentation tanks were making their way down the middle of the drying riverbed.
They had come now to the riverside, and were standing looking inland toward the rapidly enlarging sedimentation plant.
There is some value in knowing the rate at which sedimentation takes place in shallow arms of the sea, and how fast sedimentary rock is formed.
Walter Alvarez of the University of California, together with several co-workers, had a technique they thought could be used to establish archaic sedimentation rates.