- sediment layer
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English-Russian maritime law dictionary. 2014.
English-Russian maritime law dictionary. 2014.
Sediment Profile Imagery — (SPI) is an underwater technique for photographing the interface between the seabed and the overlying water. The technique is used to measure or estimate biological, chemical, and physical processes occurring in the first few centimetres of… … Wikipedia
Sediment trap — Sediment traps are instruments used in oceanography to measure the quantity of sinking particulate organic (and inorganic) material in aquatic systems, usually oceans. This flux of material is the product of biological and ecological processes… … Wikipedia
sediment — UK [ˈsedɪmənt] / US [ˈsedəmənt] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms sediment : singular sediment plural sediments a) a layer of a substance that forms at the bottom of a liquid b) a layer of sand, stones, dirt etc that becomes a layer of rock … English dictionary
sediment — sed|i|ment [ sedəmənt ] noun count or uncount a layer of a substance that forms at the bottom of a liquid a. a layer of sand, stones, dirt, etc. that becomes a layer of rock ╾ sed|i|men|tar|y adjective: sedimentary rocks … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
sediment — sed|i|ment [ˈsedımənt] n [U and C] [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: sedimentum, from sedere to sit, sink down ] solid substances that settle at the bottom of a liquid ▪ a thick layer of sediment … Dictionary of contemporary English
layer — A sheetlike deposit of sediment [16]. Bed or stratum of rock [16] … Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology
sediment — [ˈsedɪmənt] noun [C/U] a layer of a substance that forms at the bottom of a liquid … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
Nepheloid layer — or nepheloid zone is a layer of water in the deep ocean basin, above the ocean floor, that contains significant amounts of suspended sediment.[1] It is from 200 to 1000 m thick. The name comes from Greek: nephos, cloud . The particles in the… … Wikipedia
Diffusion boundary layer — The diffusion boundary layer is a thin (usually on the scale of micrometers) layer of fluid which is not mixed with the main body of the fluid (or cellular arrangement in the case of organisms), by virtue of its proximity to the fluid s edge. In… … Wikipedia
Black layer — A black layer is a coat on the filament of the indirectly heated hot cathode in a cathode ray tube, intended to optimise the output of electrons from the cathode, thus minimising the energy consumption and heat generated while maximising the… … Wikipedia
glacier — glaciered, adj. /glay sheuhr/, n. an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years and moving very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of… … Universalium