sediment
/ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/
sediment noun: a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
Noun
sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)
- A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
Verb
sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)
sediment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sediment in Hindi
- collection of small particles
- गाद gād, तलछट talchaṭ
- to deposit material as a sediment
- गाद gād
sediment in Tamil
- படிவு, வண்டல், கசடு, படிமம், அடையல், தங்குபொருள்
sediment in Urdu
- درد, گاد
sediment in Bengali
- তলানি, পলি
More languagesFewer languages
- sediment in Telugu
- అవక్షేపం
- sediment in Malayalam
- മട്ട് maṭṭŭ, മട്ടി maṭṭi
- sediment in Kannada
- ಗಷ್ಟು, ಗೋಡು, ಕದಲು, ಮಡ್ಡಿ
- sediment in Tagalog
- tining
- sediment in Arabic
- رَاسِب rāsib
- sediment in Indonesian
- sedimen
- sediment in Thai
- ตะกอน takon
- sediment in Vietnamese
- trầm tích
Examples of sediment in a sentence
- The water flows out through the pipe, and the sediment collects behind.
- Xylic material and organic sediment were deposited in the supratidal marshes.
- Deposits of aqueoglacial sediments compose a significant portion of the landscape.
Forms of sediment
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sediments |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sediments |
| present participle | sedimenting |
| past participle | sedimented |
| past | sedimented |
Origin of sediment
From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.
Words formed from sediment
Words that rhyme with sediment
Questions about sediment
- What does sediment mean?
- Sediment means a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
- What is sediment in Hindi?
- Sediment in Hindi is गाद (gād), तलछट (talchaṭ). See Sediment meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sediment?
- Sediment can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sediment?
- Sediment is pronounced /ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/.
- What is the plural of sediment?
- The plural of sediment is sediments.
Words near sediment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sediment (page history and authors); sediment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sediment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sediment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sediment (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); മട്ടി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); sediment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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