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- Dictionarysilt/sɪlt/
noun
- 1. fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbour.
verb
- 1. become filled or blocked with silt: "the river's mouth had silted up"
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sand or earth that has been carried along by flowing water and then left esp. at a bend in a river or at a river’s opening. (Definition of silt from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of silt. silt.
The meaning of SILT is loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually 1/2₀ millimeter or less in diameter; also : soil containing 80 percent or more of such silt and less than 12 percent of clay. How to use silt in a sentence.
Silt is detritus (fragments of weathered and eroded rock) with properties intermediate between sand and clay. A more precise definition of silt used by geologists is that it is detrital particles with sizes between 1/256 and 1/16 mm (about 4 to 63 microns). [2]
A sedimentary material consisting of grains or particles of disintegrated rock, smaller than sand and larger than clay. The diameter of the particles ranges from 0.0039 to 0.0625 mm. Silt is often found at the bottom of bodies of water where it accumulates slowly by settling through the water.
SILT meaning: 1. sand or soil that is carried along by flowing water and then dropped, especially at a bend in a…. Learn more.
noun. 1. sediment suspended in stagnant water or carried by moving water, that often accumulates on the bottom of rivers, bays, etc., esp. such sediment with particles smaller than sand and larger than clay. 2. soil composed of 80 percent or more silt and less than 12 percent clay. verb transitive, verb intransitive.
Oct 19, 2023 · Silt is a solid, dust -like sediment that water, ice, and wind transport and deposit. Silt is made up of rock and mineral particles that are larger than clay but smaller than sand. Individual silt particles are so small that they are difficult to see. To be classified as silt, a particle must be less than .005 centimeters (.002 inches) across.
