Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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deposition | Yes | No | No | No |
superposition | Yes | No | No | No |
deposition (noun) | superposition (noun) |
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the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | the placement of one thing on top of another |
the act of putting something somewhere | (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide |
(law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office | (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest |
the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another |