By means of a super high-pressure water spray practically all the sediment is removed.
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Sediment
//ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt//
Synonyms for "sediment" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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5 entriesat location
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15 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
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9 entriesTranslations
75 translations across 39 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- afsaksel noun (collection of small particles)
- dregs noun (collection of small particles)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- τρύξ noun (collection of small particles)
Arabic
1 entries- رَاسِب noun (collection of small particles)
Armenian
1 entries- մրուր noun (collection of small particles)
Bulgarian
3 entries- ута́йка noun (collection of small particles)
- утаявам verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
- утаявам се verb (to be deposited as a sediment)
Catalan
1 entries- sediment noun (collection of small particles)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 沉積 /沉积 noun (collection of small particles)
- 沉積物 /沉积物 noun (collection of small particles)
- 沉澱 /沉淀 verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
Czech
1 entries- usazenina noun (collection of small particles)
Dutch
1 entries- sedimenteren verb (to be deposited as a sediment)
Esperanto
3 entries- feĉo noun (collection of small particles)
- sedimentigi verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
- sedimentiĝi verb (to be deposited as a sediment)
Finnish
4 entries- kerrostuma noun (collection of small particles)
- sedimentti noun (collection of small particles)
- sedimentoida verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
- sedimentoitua verb (to be deposited as a sediment)
French
3 entries- sédiment noun (collection of small particles)
- sédimenter verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
- sédimenter verb (to be deposited as a sediment)
Galician
1 entries- sedimento noun (collection of small particles)
Georgian
2 entries- დანალექი noun (collection of small particles)
- ნალექი noun (collection of small particles)
German
3 entries- Bodensatz noun (collection of small particles)
- Satz noun (collection of small particles)
- Sediment noun (collection of small particles)
Hindi
3 entries- गाद noun (collection of small particles)
- तलछट noun (collection of small particles)
- गाद verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
Icelandic
4 entries- botnfall noun (collection of small particles)
- botnlag noun (collection of small particles)
- dreggjar noun (collection of small particles)
- set noun (collection of small particles)
Indonesian
1 entries- sedimen noun (collection of small particles)
Irish
1 entries- dríodar noun (collection of small particles)
Italian
2 entries- deposito noun (collection of small particles)
- sedimento noun (collection of small particles)
Japanese
1 entries- 堆積物 noun (collection of small particles)
Khmer
1 entries- ដីល្បាប់ noun (collection of small particles)
Latin
2 entries- faex noun (collection of small particles)
- sedimen noun (collection of small particles)
Macedonian
1 entries- талог noun (collection of small particles)
Mongolian
3 entries- тунадас noun (collection of small particles)
- тунаах verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
- тунах verb (to be deposited as a sediment)
Māori
2 entries- parakiwai noun (collection of small particles)
- waipara noun (collection of small particles)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sediment noun (collection of small particles)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sediment noun (collection of small particles)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- تلوه noun (collection of small particles)
Polish
1 entries- osad noun (collection of small particles)
Portuguese
1 entries- sedimento noun (collection of small particles)
Russian
4 entries- оса́док noun (collection of small particles)
- отложе́ние noun (collection of small particles)
- отсто́й noun (collection of small particles)
- осажда́ть verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- talog noun (collection of small particles)
- талог noun (collection of small particles)
Spanish
3 entries- sedimento noun (collection of small particles)
- sedimentar verb (to deposit material as a sediment)
- sedimentar verb (to be deposited as a sediment)
Tagalog
1 entries- tining noun (collection of small particles)
Thai
1 entries- ตะกอน noun (collection of small particles)
Ukrainian
1 entries- о́сад noun (collection of small particles)
Vietnamese
1 entries- trầm tích noun (collection of small particles)
Welsh
2 entries- dyddodion noun (collection of small particles)
- gwaddod noun (collection of small particles)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
The scientists assembled dozens of temperature records from multiple studies, including data from sediment cores drilled in lake bottoms and sea floors, and from ice cores.
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Currents, waves, and wind normally transport sediment throughout the littoral system. Armoring of the coast can interfere with littoral transport, which in a natural state may reach a dynamic equilibrium.
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The Mississippi River carries millions of tons of nutrient-rich sediment into the Gulf each year.
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