Deposition vs Sediment - What's the difference?
deposition | sediment |
The removal of someone from office.
The act of depositing material, especially by a natural process; the resultant deposit.
(chemistry) The production of a thin film of material onto an existing surface.
(legal) The process of taking sworn testimony out of court; the testimony so taken.
(meteorology) The formation of snow or frost directly from water vapor.
(physics) The transformation of a gas into a solid without an intermediate liquid phase (reverse of sublimation)
(religion) The formal placement of relics in a church or shrine, and the feast day commemorating it.
A collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.
As nouns the difference between deposition and sediment
is that deposition is the removal of someone from office while sediment is a collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a river or other body of water.As a proper noun Deposition
is the removal of Jesus from the cross.As a verb sediment is
to deposit material as a sediment.deposition
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(en noun)Synonyms
* desublimationAntonyms
* erosion, corrosion * sublimationDerived terms
* thin film deposition * vapor depositionAnagrams
*sediment
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(wikipedia sediment)Noun
(en noun)- The Nile delta is composed of sediment that was washed down and deposited at the mouth of the river.
