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sediment
noun
- 1. Insoluble solid particles that have settled at the bottom of a liquid in which they were previously suspended.
- Thesaurus: residue, lees, dregs.
- Solid material, eg rock fragments or organic debris, that has been deposited by the action of gravity, wind, water or ice, especially at the bottom of a sea, lake or river.
- Thesaurus: silt, dross, sand, precipitate.
