0 to take temporary possession of someone's property until they have paid money that is owed or until they have obeyed a court order
1 to keep people, especially a jury, together in a place so that they cannot be influenced by other people, by newspaper reports, etc.
2 to separate and store a harmful substance such as carbon dioxide in a way that keeps it safe:
3 to keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case:
4 to take temporary possession of someone's property until they have paid back the money that they borrowed in order to buy it, or until they have obeyed a court order:
5 to keep a jury together in a place so that they cannot discuss the case with other people or see or hear news reports about it:
The amount of carbon in the atmosphere must be reduced, either by lowering emissions or by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.
They should aim to sequester all significant caches of highly enriched uranium used in research reactors worldwide.
Ecosystems with high biodiversity will take up and sequester more carbon and nitrogen.
Mercury and other sequestered toxins are leaching out of the melting permafrost and into the ocean.
In previtellogenic oocytes the ankryin-like protein is sequestered in spherical bodies (a) surrounded by a perinuclear localisation of p58 (b).
A large part of the l-reduction results from sequestering a redox center from the aqueous solvent environment.
Consider first the marginal effect of changing the price per unit of carbon sequestered.
The estimates for number of hectares to be planted and additional carbon sequestered are based on approved but not necessarily guaranteed funding.
