Deposition (disambiguation)

With deposition (lat. Depositio , "the filing") one describes

• in thermodynamics, the process of the immediate transition of a substance from a gaseous to a solid state
• in the environmental sciences (especially: atmospheric deposition ) a deposition of pollutants on surfaces of all kinds; see deposition
• in university history an old initiation rite ( depositio cornuum , the "laying off of the horns") customary from the Middle Ages to the 18th century at German universities, see: Deposition (University)
• in law, the deposit of things.
• in medicine, the spread and deposition of particles in the lungs

See also:

• Organometallic chemical vapor deposition (Engl. Metal-organic chemical vapor deposition )

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.