silt
Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Other meanings
Any material with similar physical characteristics, regardless of its origins or transport.
A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
A kind of
- soil
Related words
- siltation
- siltlike
- siltstone
- silty
Word history
From Middle English "silen".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “silt” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.