deposition
IPA: dɛpʌzˈɪʃʌn
Root Word: Deposition
noun
- (Christianity) The removal of Jesus from the cross.
- The removal of someone from office.
- The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
- (chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
- (law) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
- (meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
- (physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
- (religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
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Examples of "deposition" in Sentences
- The opposite of sublimation is deposition.
- Parliament dissolved by the deposition of the monarch.
- The strata were deposited in a fluvial and deltaic depositional system.
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