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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A layer of porous material through which sewage is intermittently filtered in order that contact with bacterial organisms and atmospheric oxygen, over the great surface presented by the pores of the mass, may bring about chemical destruction of the noxious organic matter present.
- noun In geology, a bed lying next to (in contact with) a formation of a different character.
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