SEDIMENT


Meaning of SEDIMENT in English

(~s)

Sediment is solid material that settles at the bottom of a liquid, especially earth and pieces of rock that have been carried along and then left somewhere by water, ice, or wind.

Many organisms that die in the sea are soon buried by ~.

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