sediment

From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdɪmənt

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.

• dregs
• grounds
• grout
• settlings

• sedimentary
• sedimentation
• sedimentaceous
• sedimentitious
• sedimentoclastic

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.

• Edmisten, end items, end times, endtimes, enmisted, midteens, set mined, setmined, tidesmen

Borrowed from Latin sedimentum.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [sə.ðiˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sə.ðiˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [se.ðiˈment]

sediment m (plural sediments)

1. sediment

• sedimentar
• sedimentari

• “sediment”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sediment”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “sediment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sediment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

sediment m inan

1. sediment

   Synonym: usazenina

• See sese

• “sediment”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sediment”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

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

sediment n (plural sedimenten)

1. sediment

• sedimentaanvoer
• sedimentafzetting
• sedimentgesteente

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

From Latin sedimentum.

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

1. sediment

• sedimentær

• “sediment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin sedimentum.

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

1. sediment

• sedimentær

• “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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sediment m (plural sediments)

1. sediment

• sedimentacion
• sedimentari

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 632.

Borrowed from French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.

• IPA^(key): /se.diˈment/

sediment n (plural sedimente)

1. sediment

• sedimenta
• sedimentar

• “sediment”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

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

sedìment m inan (Cyrillic spelling седѝмент)

1. sediment