sediment
- IPA[ˈsedəm(ə)nt]
美式
- matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs；particulate matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land or the bottom of a body of water, and may in time become consolidated into rock
- settle as sediment；(of a liquid) deposit a sediment
verb: sediment, 3rd person present: sediments, gerund or present participle: sedimenting, past tense: sedimented, past participle: sedimented
noun: sediment, plural noun: sediments
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名詞
- 1. matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs the ice freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork
- ▪ particulate matter that is carried by water or wind and deposited on the surface of the land or the bottom of a body of water, and may in time become consolidated into rock there is a huge concentration of sediment in deltas it takes hundreds of thousands of years to turn the sediments into carbonate rock
動詞
- 1. settle as sediment the erythrocytes were allowed to sediment within the syringe
- ▪ (of a liquid) deposit a sediment heparinated blood was allowed to sediment at room temperature
- ▪ deposit (something) as a sediment the DNA was sedimented by centrifugation
- deposited as a sediment: sedimented waste
Oxford Dictionary
- deposited as a sediment: sedimented waste
Oxford American Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈsɛdɪm(ə)nt]
英式
- matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs: the ice freezes the wine and sediment at the base of the cork
- settle as sediment: the erythrocytes were allowed to sediment within the syringe
Oxford Dictionary
