Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of sediment or dregs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sedimentary.
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- adjective
sedimentary
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I am trying not to be sedimental, but your commentary on this is stone-cold Aydin.
Rock solid data AYDIN 2009
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The third dimension of time is the residual, the dead realities beneath us, laid down as sedimental strata of morphologies, metaphysics complexifying through each iteration of a cosmos in a process of involution, of evolution, order emerging out of chaos until we find ourselves here on the solid surface of a world run by scientific principles.
Archive 2006-05-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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The third dimension of time is the residual, the dead realities beneath us, laid down as sedimental strata of morphologies, metaphysics complexifying through each iteration of a cosmos in a process of involution, of evolution, order emerging out of chaos until we find ourselves here on the solid surface of a world run by scientific principles.
V For Venn Diagram Hal Duncan 2006
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These being prevented from yielding outwardly by the tenacity and weight of the solid involucrum of precipitated and sedimental deposits which overspread them, sustained a pressure out of proportion to their expansive force, and were in consequence proportionately condensed, and by the continuance of the process, where the overlying strata were sufficiently resistant, finally consolidated.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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These songs were rock, now they're just sedimental.)
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