how to pronounce sediment

/ˈsɛd.ɪ.mənt/

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sediment is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of sediment in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… a sort of dusty sediment on them …”

meaning of sediment

Sediment is the material that is left behind when something is eroded or dissolved.

sediment frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word sediment occurs in english on average 5.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics sediment can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that sediment can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;