different between accumulation vs sediment

English

Etymology

• First attested in the late 15th century.
• accumulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationis. Doublet of accumulatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.?kju?m.j?.?le?.??n/
• Hyphenation: ac?cu?mu?la?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

accumulation (countable and uncountable, plural accumulations)

1. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
2. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.

3. A mass of something piled up or collected.
4. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
5. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
6. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is low.
7. (Britain, education, historical, uncountable) The practice of taking two higher degrees simultaneously, to reduce the length of study.

Synonyms

• (accounting): retained earnings

Antonyms

• decumulation

Related terms

• accumulate
• accumulator

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accumulatio, accumulationem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.my.la.sj??/

Noun

accumulation f (plural accumulations)

1. accumulation (action of accumulating)
2. accumulation (result of accumulating)

Related terms

• accumuler

Further reading

• “accumulation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle French sédiment, from Latin sedimentum < sede?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?d.?.m?nt/
• Rhymes: -?d?m?nt

Noun

sediment (countable and uncountable, plural sediments)

1. 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
• sedimentaceous
• sedimentitious
• sedimentoclastic

Translations

Verb

sediment (third-person singular simple present sediments, present participle sedimenting, simple past and past participle sedimented)

1. (transitive) To deposit material as a sediment.
2. (intransitive) To be deposited as a sediment.

Translations

Anagrams

• Edmisten, end items, end times, endtimes, enmisted, midteens, set mined, setmined, tidesmen

Czech

Noun

sediment m

1. sediment

Synonyms

• usazenina

Related terms

• See sese

Further reading

• sediment in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sediment in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sédiment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?.di?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: se?di?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimenten)

1. sediment

Derived terms

• sedimentaanvoer
• sedimentafzetting
• sedimentgesteente

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment or sedimenter, definite plural sedimenta or sedimentene)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin sedimentum

Noun

sediment n (definite singular sedimentet, indefinite plural sediment, definite plural sedimenta)

1. sediment

Related terms

• sedimentær

References

• “sediment” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French sediment, from Latin sedimentum.

Noun

sediment n (plural sedimente)

1. sediment

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sed?ment/
• Hyphenation: se?di?ment

Noun

sedìment m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. sediment

Declension