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Sediment

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depositnoun(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.

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depositnoun(banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
siltationnounThe (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
siltnoun(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
waternounA barangay of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines (unconfirmed).
sedimentarynounA rock of this kind.
sludgenounA residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
sedimentationnounThe separation of a suspension of solid particles into a concentrated slurry and a supernatant liquid, either to concentrate the solid or to clarify the liquid.
sunkencaused, by natural or unnatural means, to be depressed (lower than the surrounding area) or submerged
lateritious(medicine, biology, archaic) Of the reddish color of bricks.
pelletnounA small, compressed, hard chunk of matter.
solidnoun(chemistry) A substance in the fundamental state of matter that retains its size and shape without need of a container (as opposed to a liquid or gas).
leesnounThe sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
mixturenounSomething produced by mixing.
contaminantnounThat which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.
cubicnoun(algebraic geometry) A cubic curve.
precipitatenounA product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
settlingnounThe act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing oneself, of colonizing, subsiding, adjusting, etc.
depositionalOf, pertaining to, or in the nature of a deposit or a deposition.
cubesnoun(euphemistic) Testicles.
depositionnoun(law) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.

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