Usually means: Settling of particles in fluid.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sedimentation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sedimentation: Merriam-Webster
  3. sedimentation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sedimentation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sedimentation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sedimentation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sedimentation, sedimentation: Wordnik
  8. sedimentation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sedimentation: Wiktionary
  10. sedimentation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sedimentation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sedimentation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sedimentation: Dictionary.com
  14. Sedimentation (water treatment), Sedimentation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sedimentation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sedimentation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sedimentation: Rhymezone
  18. Sedimentation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sedimentation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. sedimentation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sedimentation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sedimentation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sedimentation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sedimentation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sedimentation: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SEDIMENTATION: Power Engineering
  6. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  The 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.

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