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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