sedimentator
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any device for separating sediments from liquids, such as a centrifuge.
Example Sentences
- "The sewage is pretreated mechanically before proceeding to a sedimentator with a sprinkling system and a sludge collection hopper connected to an aeration tank."
- "The excesses of iron and sulfur can be removed from the sedimentator as a non-toxic sediment after the second stage."
- "The liquid is then pumped into the hydrodynamic sedimentator."
- "The liquid current discharged from the sedimentator consists mainly of the water produced during the quench phase and those resulting from acid washing."
- "In addition, by analogy with shallow-water suspension-feeders of corresponding groups, filtering sponges and bivalve molluscs (Limopsidae and Mytilidae) and sedimentors such as serpulomorph polychaetes, Bryozoa and most likely crinoids can be included among triptonovores."
- "The survivors in hypertrophic lakes thus mostly consist of hig-efficiency bacteria feeders and of raptors, which also seems to be in accordances with Patalas (1954), (Pejler (1965) and Andersson et al. (1975). This can be achieved partly by a change in species composition, partly by changing proportions in the diet, implying that a greater fraction will consist of bacteria for the sedimentators and microfiltrators."
Etymology
From sedimentat(ion) + -or.