sedimentary
pronunciation
How to pronounce sedimentary in British English:
UK [ˌsedɪˈmentri]
How to pronounce sedimentary in American English:
US [ˌsɛdəˈmɛntəri, -ˈmɛntri]
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- Adjective:
- resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment
Word Origin
- sedimentary (adj.)
- 1764, from sediment + -ary. Sedimentary rock attested by 1830 (in Lyell). Sedimental (adj.) is recorded from c. 1600.
Example
- 1. The whole sequence represents a complete volcanic-eruptive sedimentary cycle .
- 2. The deposits eventually become pressed under sedimentary weight into stone .
- 3. The study is based on 80 ice cores and sedimentary samples taken from greenland , lake bottoms and sea floors on every continent .
- 4. Oil production from shale rock , a technically complex process of squeezing hydrocarbons from sedimentary deposits , is just beginning .
- 5. It resembled sedimentary rock with the occasional fossil of a long-lost feature or inadvertent vulnerability .