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Deposition vs Siltation - What's the difference?

deposition | siltation |

As nouns the difference between deposition and siltation

is that deposition is the removal of someone from office while siltation is the (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.

As a proper noun Deposition

is the removal of Jesus from the cross.

deposition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * desublimation

    Antonyms

    * erosion, corrosion * sublimation

    Derived terms

    * thin film deposition * vapor deposition

    Anagrams

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    siltation

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 20, author=Somini Sengupta, title=In Silt, Bangladesh Sees Potential Shield Against Sea Level Rise, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation . }}

    See also

    *(Siltation)