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sediment

See also: Sediment and sédiment

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From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.

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sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)

  1. 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.

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sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)

  1. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
  2. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin sedimentum.

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sediment m (plural sediments)

  1. sediment
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Czech

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Noun

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sediment m inan

  1. sediment
    Synonym: usazenina

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Declension of sediment (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative sediment sedimenty
genitive sedimentu sedimentů
dative sedimentu sedimentům
accusative sediment sedimenty
vocative sedimente sedimenty
locative sedimentu sedimentech
instrumental sedimentem sedimenty
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  • “sediment”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “sediment”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

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  • IPA(key): /ˌseː.diˈmɛnt/
  • Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

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sediment n (plural sedimenten)

  1. sediment

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  • “sediment” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin sedimentum.

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sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment or sedimenter, definite plural sedimenta or sedimentene)

  1. sediment
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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From Latin sedimentum.

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sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment, definite plural sedimenta)

  1. sediment
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Occitan

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sediment m (plural sediments)

  1. sediment
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.

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sediment n (plural sedimente)

  1. sediment

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative sediment sedimentul sedimente sedimentele
genitive-dative sediment sedimentului sedimente sedimentelor
vocative sedimentule sedimentelor
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Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sedǐment/
  • Hyphenation: se‧di‧ment

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sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling седѝмент)

  1. sediment

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Declension of sediment
singular plural
nominative sedìment sedimenti
genitive sedimenta sedimenāta / sedimēntā
dative sedimentu sedimentima
accusative sediment sedimente
vocative sedimente sedimenti
locative sedimentu sedimentima
instrumental sedimentom sedimentima
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