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sediment

particulate matter that is deposited on the surface of land
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sediment

Summary

sediment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (748 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • sediment is a type of sedimentary material[2].
  • sediment is a type of sediment[3].
  • sediment's Commons category is recorded as Sediments[4].
  • sediment's has cause is recorded as sedimentation[5].
  • sediment's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sediments[6].
  • sediment's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[7].
  • sediment's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[8].
  • sediment's topic has template is recorded as Template:Sediment sidebar[9].
  • sediment's different from is recorded as Q56070826[10].
  • sediment's studied by is recorded as sedimentology[11].
  • sediment's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002007[12].
  • sediment's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q118287356[13].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include sedimentary material[2] and sediment[3].

Why It Matters

sediment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (748 views/month).[1] sediment has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] sediment is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . resource.geosciml.org. resource.geosciml.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Environment Ontology. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Q56070826
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 14605, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  2. 14d ago · CanticleCat · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Q56070826
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1889]]: [[Q1262948]]"
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