Deposition
[,depə'zɪʃ(ə)n;diː-] or [,dɛpə'zɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office.
(noun.) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office.
(noun.) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something.
Edited by Elsie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
(n.) The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.
(n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
(n.) That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.
(n.) An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.
(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.
Edited by Ellis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Law.] [1]. Testimony (in writing, signed and sworn to before a magistrate, after cross-examination), evidence, AFFIDAVIT.[2]. Dethroning, dismission, displacement, removal.
Checker: Sylvia
Definition
n. act of deposing: act of deponing: declaration testimony taken authoritatively to be used as a substitute for the production of the witness in open court: removal: act of depositing: what is deposited sediment.
Checker: Vernon
Examples
- Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It seems strange, now, on observing the extensive use that is made of the deposition of metals, that it should have remained so long unapplied after the principle had been known. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A patent was granted last year for a mode of coating earthenware vessels with copper or iron by electro-chemical deposition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The simplest illustration of electro-metallic deposition is obtained by immersing a silver spoon and a strip of zinc into a solution of sulphate of copper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I thank you, replied I; listen, therefore, to the deposition that I have to make. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Thus, when the vessel is filled with the silvering liquid, a voltaic current is established, and the deposition is effected on the articles connected with the negative pole. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The deposition of silver and gold on baser metals not only increases the ornamental effect, but prevents oxidation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- For that purpose, the surface whereon the deposition is to be made is smeared over with sweet oil, or with black lead. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- What made him be the very magistrate sent for to receive Leonards' deposition? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It could not be used for electroplating or deposition, nor could it charge storage batteries, all of which are easily within the ability of the direct current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I believe you were the magistrate who attended to take down the deposition of a poor man who died in the Infirmary last night. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In other words it is a deposition bath, consisting of a glass cell in which two plates of chemically pure zinc are dipped in a solution of zinc sulphate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Ora