Sedimentation is the settling of carried material to the bottom of still water. Rates of sedimentation, sedimentation in the reservoir, a sedimentation tank.
It builds the rock record layer by layer, so the order of the layers is the order of time. In water treatment a sedimentation tank does the first cleaning simply by letting the solids fall.
1nounsedimentationThe settling of carried material at the bottom.
“Sedimentation had filled a third of the reservoir in fifty years.”
sedimentation is a process.
Proto-Indo-European
*sed-
Latin
sedimentum
Middle French
sédiment
English
sediment
English, today
sedimentation
From sediment + -ation. sediment comes from Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sedeō.
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