Sediment vs Residue - What's the difference?
sediment | residue |
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
Whatever remains after something else has been removed.
(chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
(legal) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
(mathematics) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
As nouns the difference between sediment and residue
is that sediment is a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water while residue is whatever remains after something else has been removed.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.