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- Deposition - n. - The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
- Deposition - n. - The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.
- Deposition - n. - The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
- Deposition - n. - That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.
- Deposition - n. - An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.
- 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.
- Electro-tint - n. - A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.
- 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.
- Ossify - v. t. - To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sedimentation - n. - The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
- Metallochrome - n. - A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.
- Melanosis - - The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.
- Want - v. i. - A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
- Stalactite - n. - A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks.
- Stratification - n. - The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.
- Hypostatical - a. - Depending upon, or due to, deposition or setting; as, hypostatic cognestion, cognestion due to setting of blood by gravitation.
- Dethronement - n. - Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
- 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.
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- G2602 καταβολή - 2602 καταβολή - ΚΑΤΑΒΟΛΉ - - katabolḗ - kat-ab-ol-ay' - from καταβάλλω; a deposition, i.e. founding; figuratively, conception:--conceive, foundation. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G4783 συγκατάθεσις - 4783 συγκατάθεσις - ΣΥΓΚΑΤΆΘΕΣΙΣ - - synkatáthesis - soong-kat-ath'-es-is - from συγκατατίθεμαι; a deposition (of sentiment) in company with, i.e. (figuratively) accord with:--agreement. - Verb - greek