English

Verb

1. present participle of depose

• Deposition (law), taking testimony outside of court
• Deposition (chemistry), molecules settling out of a solution
• Deposition (sediment), material (like sediment) being added to a landform
• Deposition (physics), the process of gas transformation into solid
• Deposition (politics), the removal of a person of authority from political power
• Deposition (Aerosol physics), a process where aerosol particles set down onto surfaces
• Deposition (university), a widespread initiation ritual for new students practiced from the Middle Ages until the 18th century
• Deposition from the Cross, in art, the depiction of the removal of Jesus from the cross

• The Deposition (Michelangelo), a marble sculpture
• The Deposition (Raphael), an oil painting
• "The Deposition", an episode of The Office

See also

• Fused deposition modeling, a process by which a part is constructed by depositing material layer by layer
• Thin-film deposition, any technique for depositing a thin film of material onto a substrate or onto previously deposited layers