Deposition

(noun.) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office.

(noun.) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office.

(noun.) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something.

埃尔希编辑

• Nor will the closest inspection of a formation give us any idea of the length of time which its deposition may have consumed. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• It seems strange, now, on observing the extensive use that is made of the deposition of metals, that it should have remained so long unapplied after the principle had been known. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• A patent was granted last year for a mode of coating earthenware vessels with copper or iron by electro-chemical deposition. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The simplest illustration of electro-metallic deposition is obtained by immersing a silver spoon and a strip of zinc into a solution of sulphate of copper. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I thank you, replied I; listen, therefore, to the deposition that I have to make. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Thus, when the vessel is filled with the silvering liquid, a voltaic current is established, and the deposition is effected on the articles connected with the negative pole. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The deposition of silver and gold on baser metals not only increases the ornamental effect, but prevents oxidation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• For that purpose, the surface whereon the deposition is to be made is smeared over with sweet oil, or with black lead. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• What made him be the very magistrate sent for to receive Leonards' deposition? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It could not be used for electroplating or deposition, nor could it charge storage batteries, all of which are easily within the ability of the direct current. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I believe you were the magistrate who attended to take down the deposition of a poor man who died in the Infirmary last night. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• In other words it is a deposition bath, consisting of a glass cell in which two plates of chemically pure zinc are dipped in a solution of zinc sulphate. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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