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[gvdlans]

Your question is a little bit vague. When I see the term settling, my first thought is indeed that it is the same as sedimentation. It is the movement of a dispersed phase (e.g. liquid droplets, solid particles etc.), relative to a continuous phase (e.g. a liquid or a gas), as a result of gravity force (or other forces, for example electrostatic forces).

Term settling is also used in "settling out pressure of a compressor".

Maybe you can give some more details about the context in which the term settling is used?

[Marwen]

Thank you very much. I did need the exact meaning of "settling" when it has to do with clarification, so I think you have solved my problem (I thought that it may also mean something like flotation, or filtration...). So, thank you very much again.