Seatment

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The location where a person, facility, or community is established; settlement. obsolete

    "Thirty-six names were put into a box, and thirty days preceding the annual meeting the Clerk of the Society was to draw twelve of said names, and the persons whose names were thus drawn were to seat the meeting house and report at the next annual meeting “of their seatment.”"

  2. 2
    The act or manner in which something has been seated; placement.

    "A force pump comprising a well casing having a bottom packing ring, a cylinder held in said ring and having a substantially closed upper and lower end, inlet ports in said cylinder below the ring and outlet ports in said cylinder above the ring, a pull rod extending into the cylinder, a lower piston in the cylinder fixed to the lower end of the rod, an upper piston slidably mounted on the rod, means in said cylinder for complementary engagement of means carried by the upper piston for retaining said upper piston above the inlet ports upon seatment of the lower piston on the lower end of the cylinder whereby fluid entering the cylinder is received between the pistons, said lower piston moving responsive to an upward pressure thrust relative to the upper piston upon engagement of the upper piston with the upper end of the cylinder to force the fluid retained between the pistons through the outlet ports into the casing."

  3. 3
    The location or facilities provided for someone or something to be seated in.

    "...left mandible with broad, flat lacinia mobilis set in seatment so surface flush with extremes of incisor, right incisor also with mostly unserrate straight margin as in left, right lacinia mobilis spiniform, each mandible with two spines, no molars, no palps;"

  4. 4
    The act of sitting.

    "So I was ready to ask “folks to momentarily take up their seatment allocation for the chalk talk.”"

Example

More examples

"Thirty-six names were put into a box, and thirty days preceding the annual meeting the Clerk of the Society was to draw twelve of said names, and the persons whose names were thus drawn were to seat the meeting house and report at the next annual meeting “of their seatment.”"

Etymology

From seat + -ment.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.