| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sed·i·ment |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s d  -mnt |
| NOUN: | 1. Material that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees. 2. Solid fragments of inorganic or organic material that come from the weathering of rock and are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin sedimentum, act of settling, from sed re, to sit, settle. See sed- in Appendix I.
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