Definition of deposition

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Deposition (n.) The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.

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Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..
Tufa :: Tufa () A soft or porous stone formed by depositions from water, usually calcareous; -- called also calcareous tufa..
Melanosis :: Melanosis () The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors..
Calcification :: Calcification (n.) The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and of teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue..
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
Polarization :: Polarization (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell..
Dethronement :: Dethronement (n.) Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
Secondary :: Secondary (a.) Subsequent in origin; -- said of minerals produced by alteertion or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rocks mass; also of characters of minerals (as secondary cleavage, etc.) developed by pressure or other causes..
Tumor :: Tumor (n.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm..
Depose :: Depose (v. i.) To bear witness; to testify under oath; to make deposition.
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration..
Stratified :: Stratification (n.) The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance..
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
Nondeposition :: Nondeposition (n.) A failure to deposit or throw down.
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter..
Want :: Want (v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place..
Plating :: Plating (n.) The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition..
Diluvial :: Diluvial (a.) Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said of coarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existing water courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by the agency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvian epoch.
Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories..
Galvanoplastic :: Galvanoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the art or process of electrotyping; employing, or produced by, the process of electolytic deposition; as, a galvano-plastic copy of a medal or the like..
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