Synonym: deposit, dethronement. Similar words: postposition, position, deposit, exposition, imposition, opposition, composition, supposition. Meaning: [‚depə'zɪʃn] n. 1. the natural process of laying down a deposit of something 2. (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office 3. the act of putting something somewhere 4. the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office.
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1 Crowds celebrated the dictator's deposition.
2 The accused has made a deposition.
3 Our lawyer took a deposition from us.
4 This mechanism, mineral deposition, is one factor participating in the process of bone remodeling.
5 The deposition of Nepos and then that of Romulus Augustulus in 476 saw the end of the line of western Roman emperors.
6 Nevertheless, local action often entailed the deposition of the existing authorities and their replacement by local notables.
7 The logical result of excommunication was deposition, for an excommunicate bishop or king could not rule a diocese or kingdom.
8 Poor-quality eggshells indicate insufficient deposition of calcium and this deficiency was shown to have arisen because of increased soil acidification.
9 There was deposition in large alluvial fans stretching out from the mountains in the south and the north-east into the flat plain.
10 In short,[www.Sentencedict.com] the deposition only serves to underline the limitations of ecclesiastical initiative and power in politics.
11 Erosion and deposition begin and end at different times at sites hundreds of kilometers apart.
12 Dry deposition may make a major contribution to the acidity problem.
13 It was a trial by deposition conducted across the four corners of the nation.
14 Deposition of nitric acid in particular may contribute to the equation as a fertiliser as well as a pollutant perse.
15 During the deposition, Symington defended the use of the $ 67. 5 million Esplanade appraisal in his 1990 financial statement.
16 Unless farm fertilisation increases, atmospheric deposition of nitrogen, especially as nitrate, may well overtake deposition from land runoff.
17 Before the court case, we had to file/give a deposition.
18 This staining on marble is the result of dry deposition from sulphur dioxide gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
19 During calcium ingestion, factors such as calcitonin might attenuate bone resorption, while bone calcium deposition continues.
20 And then one day the defendants' attorneys took the deposition of Maggie and the kids.
21 Also, while being transported by wind, it will have been exposed to sunlight for a considerable time prior to deposition.
22 Going farther back, into post-glacial times, we find evidence that erosion and deposition were sometimes very rapid indeed.
23 The walls were mostly slate, apparently quite normal, grained rock produced by a perfectly standard physical process of alluvial deposition.
24 In this case I think it is more likely that limestone deposition started in several or many different centres and spread outwards.
25 Some bird and animal populations living in forests damaged by acid deposition have been shown to have declined recently.
26 Several chapters cover the basics of clean room technology, e.g., lithography, etching and layer deposition techniques.
27 Plant fossils are often to be found in particular beds, reflecting conditions of deposition that were just right for their preservation.
28 Gosse was perplexed at the vast tracts of time required by geologists to account for the deposition of all the strata.
29 These will all reduce emissions from fossil fuels and so help combat global warming and acid deposition.
30 The surface phase was characterised by processes that affected the rocks during or soon after deposition.
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