Sediment
noun
Small pieces of matter that settle at the bottom of a liquid.
There was so much sediment at the bottom of the lake that it was nearly impossible to see through the water.
noun
Material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers.
The windy desert conditions resulted in a thick layer of sediment covering the ancient ruins.
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Geographic
noun
The process of settling or being deposited as a sediment.
The experiment involved observing the sedimentation of particles in a solution.
Often appears as...
- observe sedimentation
- measure sedimentation
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Formal
noun
Small pieces of matter that settle at the bottom of a liquid.
There was so much sediment at the bottom of the lake that it was nearly impossible to see through the water.
noun
Material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers.
The windy desert conditions resulted in a thick layer of sediment covering the ancient ruins.
Usage tips
Geographic
noun
The process of settling or being deposited as a sediment.
The experiment involved observing the sedimentation of particles in a solution.
Often appears as...
- observe sedimentation
- measure sedimentation
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture small particles slowly dropping to the bottom of a still glass of water to understand sediment.
After stirring my muddy shoes in the bucket, the sediment gathered at the bottom.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Sediment can be fine and hard to see until it collects in large amounts.
Clear water can still have sediment that will become visible over time.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
Sediment often implies natural particles in outdoor bodies of water, not typically in domestic settings.
The river's flow carried sediment, contributing to the fertile land.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture small particles slowly dropping to the bottom of a still glass of water to understand sediment.
After stirring my muddy shoes in the bucket, the sediment gathered at the bottom.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Sediment can be fine and hard to see until it collects in large amounts.
Clear water can still have sediment that will become visible over time.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
Sediment often implies natural particles in outdoor bodies of water, not typically in domestic settings.
The river's flow carried sediment, contributing to the fertile land.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Picture small particles slowly dropping to the bottom of a still glass of water to understand sediment.
After stirring my muddy shoes in the bucket, the sediment gathered at the bottom.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Visible
Sediment can be fine and hard to see until it collects in large amounts.
Clear water can still have sediment that will become visible over time.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
Sediment often implies natural particles in outdoor bodies of water, not typically in domestic settings.
The river's flow carried sediment, contributing to the fertile land.
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Mars Up Close, Part 2:...
and the pictures that we can take of the surface, and the things that we can do on the surface to ground truth that data. This data, we can resolve things that are about 20 meters across. The camera has a resolution of six meters per pixel. And we can see that channel now coming in from the upper left and draining out into a fan of sediment. We call this an alluvial fan.
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Creating living...
simply diverting water and very specific ways based on the kind of recorded set of histories we've seen of how this behaves we're able to in a sense guide you know massive amounts of sediment in very specific directions and then I mean I mean it's basically what what it says it is it's printing where we want want
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Thanks to Shrimp, These...
the reason that they like the same places that are shrimp do is the shrimp are keeping it clean and they're sweeping off the sediment from the bottom they're turning a lot of that material into their own bodies and that the shrimp are able to use a lot of things that would otherwise
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The Gulf Oil Spill...
that mean for the long-term stability of those populations we even had some rare and endangered birds that we're actually nesting out here and today nothing they're all gone there is an effort to restore this island and to bring in sediment back and the mangroves back so
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This deep-sea mystery is...
underneath all the world's oceans that extends hundreds of meters into the seafloor, which is cool, but the only problem is that nobody believed him, and the reason that nobody believed him is that ocean sediments may be the most boring place on Earth.
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How to fossilize...yourse...
Otherwise, you'd better hope the sediments around you harden while your bones decay away and another sediment or mineral fills in the spaces your bones leave behind, creating a perfect cast of your skeleton. Over time, the sediments around your fossil
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Where will you be able...
Deltas are a kind of landmass formed when sediment carried by rivers is deposited where that river meets a larger body of water. River deltas are incredibly fertile ecosystems capable of supporting abundant agriculture and marine life.
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What Mud From Glacial...
lakes contain layers of sediment that have accumulated in the bottom it's a bit like a tape recorder year by year what's gone on in the climate what the temperature was what the life-forms were around so it was proposed that to add to
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James Balog: Time-lapse...
I hadn't realized it was based on concrete measurements of what the paleoclimates -- the ancient climates -- were, as recorded in the ice sheets, as recorded in deep ocean sediments,
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Hippos Can’t Swim? PIPE...
as it enters botswana it confronts the dry sounds of the kalahari desert and its main arteries begin to slow its rich sediments settle and form the largest inland delta in the world
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Mars Up Close, Part 2:...
and the pictures that we can take of the surface, and the things that we can do on the surface to ground truth that data. This data, we can resolve things that are about 20 meters across. The camera has a resolution of six meters per pixel. And we can see that channel now coming in from the upper left and draining out into a fan of sediment. We call this an alluvial fan.
Video examples
Creating living...
simply diverting water and very specific ways based on the kind of recorded set of histories we've seen of how this behaves we're able to in a sense guide you know massive amounts of sediment in very specific directions and then I mean I mean it's basically what what it says it is it's printing where we want want
Video examples
Thanks to Shrimp, These...
the reason that they like the same places that are shrimp do is the shrimp are keeping it clean and they're sweeping off the sediment from the bottom they're turning a lot of that material into their own bodies and that the shrimp are able to use a lot of things that would otherwise
Video examples
The Gulf Oil Spill...
that mean for the long-term stability of those populations we even had some rare and endangered birds that we're actually nesting out here and today nothing they're all gone there is an effort to restore this island and to bring in sediment back and the mangroves back so
Video examples
This deep-sea mystery is...
underneath all the world's oceans that extends hundreds of meters into the seafloor, which is cool, but the only problem is that nobody believed him, and the reason that nobody believed him is that ocean sediments may be the most boring place on Earth.
Video examples
How to fossilize...yourse...
Otherwise, you'd better hope the sediments around you harden while your bones decay away and another sediment or mineral fills in the spaces your bones leave behind, creating a perfect cast of your skeleton. Over time, the sediments around your fossil
Video examples
Where will you be able...
Deltas are a kind of landmass formed when sediment carried by rivers is deposited where that river meets a larger body of water. River deltas are incredibly fertile ecosystems capable of supporting abundant agriculture and marine life.
Video examples
What Mud From Glacial...
lakes contain layers of sediment that have accumulated in the bottom it's a bit like a tape recorder year by year what's gone on in the climate what the temperature was what the life-forms were around so it was proposed that to add to
Video examples
James Balog: Time-lapse...
I hadn't realized it was based on concrete measurements of what the paleoclimates -- the ancient climates -- were, as recorded in the ice sheets, as recorded in deep ocean sediments,
Video examples
Hippos Can’t Swim? PIPE...
as it enters botswana it confronts the dry sounds of the kalahari desert and its main arteries begin to slow its rich sediments settle and form the largest inland delta in the world
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George Will
Journalist
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
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John Boyle O'Reilly
Irish Poet
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
When whales die, their bodies sink to the bottom of the ocean and over time become part of the marine sediment layer, where they can sequester the carbon dioxide they have accumulated during their life span, an average of 33 tons for a great whale species, keeping it out of the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.
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Richard Leakey
Kenyan Environmentalist
For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian Author
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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Carrie Fisher
American Actress
I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
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Robert Brady
American Politician
Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.
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John Joly
Irish Scientist
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
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Sally Ride
American Astronaut
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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Jonathan Anderson
Irish Designer
I've collected John Ward pieces for years. Ward represents ideas of nature and of sediments.
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George Will
Journalist
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
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John Boyle O'Reilly
Irish Poet
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
When whales die, their bodies sink to the bottom of the ocean and over time become part of the marine sediment layer, where they can sequester the carbon dioxide they have accumulated during their life span, an average of 33 tons for a great whale species, keeping it out of the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years.
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Richard Leakey
Kenyan Environmentalist
For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.
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Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian Author
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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Carrie Fisher
American Actress
I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.
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Robert Brady
American Politician
Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic.
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John Joly
Irish Scientist
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
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Sally Ride
American Astronaut
We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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Jonathan Anderson
Irish Designer
I've collected John Ward pieces for years. Ward represents ideas of nature and of sediments.
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