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   sediment

   /ˈsɛdɪm(ə)nt/

   noun

   • 1. matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs: "the ice freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork"
   • ▪ particulate matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land or the seabed, and may in time become consolidated into rock: "there is a huge concentration of sediment in deltas"

   verb

   • 1. settle as sediment: "the erythrocytes were allowed to sediment within the syringe"
   • ▪ (of a liquid) deposit a sediment: "heparinated blood was allowed to sediment at room temperature"
   • ▪ deposit (something) as a sediment: "the DNA was sedimented by centrifugation"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from French sédiment or Latin sedimentum ‘settling’, from sedere ‘sit’.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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