deposition
/ˌdɛp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/
deposition noun: the removal of someone from office.
Noun
deposition (countable and uncountable, plural depositions)
- The removal of someone from office.
- So, Andover featured in the Glorious Revolution, which involved the deposition of Catholic fraterniser James II and his replacement by stout Protestants William and Mary.2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 58
- The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
- The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
- The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
- The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
- The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
- Synonyms:
- desublimation
- The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
Proper noun capitalized: Deposition
Deposition
deposition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
deposition in Hindi
- removal of someone from office
- निष्कासन niṣkāsan
- process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken
- गवाही gavāhī, शहादत śahādat
- transformation of gas into solid
- निक्षेपण nikṣepaṇ
deposition in Tamil
- சான்றுரை, நிலை யிறக்கம், வாய்ப்பிறப்பு, படுதல், படிதல், படியச் செய்தல்
deposition in Marathi
- निक्षेपण
deposition in Urdu
- گواہی, شہادت
More languagesFewer languages
- deposition in Telugu
- నిక్షేపణ, డిపాజిషన్, డిపోజిషన్
- deposition in Malayalam
- അധികാരഭ്രംശം, സ്ഥാനച്യൂതി, സ്ഥാനഭ്രംശം, സ്ഥാനഭ്രഷ്ട്
- deposition in Kannada
- ಬರೆದ ಹೇಳಿಕೆ, ಹೇಳಿಕೆ ನೀಡುವುದು, ಸಾಕ್ಷ್ಯ ಹೇಳುವುದು
Examples of deposition in a sentence
- The deposition of urate crystals in the joints leads to gout.
- A wave-built platform originates by deposition at the seaward margin of the wave-cut platform.
- No reduction in albuminuria, glomerulosclerotic index or cortical collagen deposition was observed.
Synonyms of deposition
Antonyms
Forms of deposition
| plural | depositions |
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Origin of deposition
From Middle English deposicion, from Old French deposicion (French déposition), from Latin depositio.
Words formed from deposition
- biodeposition
- calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease
- codeposition
- depositional
- depositionally
- electrodeposition
- immunodeposition
- misdeposition
- nanodeposition
- neodeposition
- nondeposition
- osteodeposition
- overdeposition
- paleodeposition
- postdeposition
- predeposition
- redeposition
- rhizodeposition
- thin film deposition
- vapor deposition
Questions about deposition
- What does deposition mean?
- Deposition means the removal of someone from office.
- What is deposition in Hindi?
- Deposition in Hindi is निष्कासन (niṣkāsan), गवाही (gavāhī), शहादत (śahādat). See Deposition meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is deposition?
- Deposition can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce deposition?
- Deposition is pronounced /ˌdɛp.əˈzɪʃ.ən/.
- What is the plural of deposition?
- The plural of deposition is depositions.
Words near deposition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: deposition (page history and authors); Deposition (page history and authors); deposition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deposition (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deposition (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); deposition (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); deposition (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); deposition (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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