Sediment vs Precipitation - What's the difference?
sediment | precipitation |
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
(meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
A hurried headlong fall.
(countable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
(figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
As nouns the difference between sediment and precipitation
is that sediment is a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water while precipitation is any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.As a verb sediment
is to deposit material as a sediment.sediment
English
(wikipedia sediment)Noun
(en noun)- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
Hyponyms
* dregs * grounds * grout * settlingsAnagrams
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Declension
{{sh-decl-noun , sedìment, sedimenti , sedimenta, sedimen?ta / sedim?nt? , sedimentu, sedimentima , sediment, sedimente , sedimente, sedimenti , sedimentu, sedimentima , sedimentom, sedimentima }}precipitation
English
Noun
- had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase --