Definition of sediment

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Sediment (n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

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Supernatation :: Supernatant (n.) The liquid remaining after solids suspended in the liquid have been sedimented by gravity or by centrifugation. Contrasted with the solid sediment, or (in centrifugation) the pellet..
Yeast :: Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment..
Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) Matter that subsides; settlings; sediment; lees; dregs.
Saccharomyces :: Saccharomyces (n.) A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula..
Mudhole :: Mudhole (n.) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn..
Flocculation :: Flocculation (n.) The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
Sedimentary :: Sedimentary (a.) Of or pertaining to sediment; formed by sediment; containing matter that has subsided.
Cystine :: Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine..
Residence :: Residence (n.) Subsidence, as of a sediment..
Laccolith :: Laccolith (n.) A mass of igneous rock intruded between sedimentary beds and resulting in a mammiform bulging of the overlying strata.
Lee :: Lee (n.) That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural..
Incrustation :: Incrustation (n.) A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler..
Sediment :: Sediment (n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs..
Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine..
Muddiness :: Muddiness (n.) The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream..
Graves :: Graves (n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Turbid :: Turbid (a.) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine..
Faeces :: Faeces (n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation..
Roil :: Roil (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring..
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