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Sediment vs Subsurface - What's the difference?

sediment | subsurface |

As nouns the difference between sediment and subsurface

is that sediment is a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water while subsurface is something that is below the layer that is on the surface.

As a verb sediment

is to deposit material as a sediment.

As an adjective subsurface is

below the surface.

sediment

English

(wikipedia sediment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
    • The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.

    Hyponyms

    * dregs * grounds * grout * settlings

    Related terms

    * sedimentary * sedimentation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deposit material as a sediment.
  • To be deposited as a sediment.

    • Anagrams

    * * * * ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , sedìment, sedimenti , sedimenta, sedimen?ta / sedim?nt? , sedimentu, sedimentima , sediment, sedimente , sedimente, sedimenti , sedimentu, sedimentima , sedimentom, sedimentima }}

    subsurface

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is below the layer that is on the surface.
    • Before we could lay the flooring we had to lay a subsurface under it to keep it flat and supoort it.
  • (countable, mathematics) A surface which is a submanifold of another surface.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • below the surface
    • variations in subsurface conditions
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