PRECIPITATION
\pɹɪsˌɪpɪtˈe͡ɪʃən], \pɹɪsˌɪpɪtˈeɪʃən], \p_ɹ_ɪ_s_ˌɪ_p_ɪ_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PRECIPITATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
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the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time; "the storm brought several inches of precipitation"
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an unexpected acceleration or hastening; "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"
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the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
By Princeton University
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overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
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the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time; "the storm brought several inches of precipitation"
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an unexpected acceleration or hastening; "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"
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the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A deposit on the earth of hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow; also, the quantity of water deposited.
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The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong.
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Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity.
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The act or process of precipitating from a solution.
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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Headlong fall; rashness; rash haste; a violent and swift descent; the process of causing the solid part of a solution to separate from the liquid; the falling upon the earth's surface of rain, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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The action by which a body abandons a liquid in which it is dissolved, and becomes deposited at the bottom of the vessel. The matter, so thrown down or precipitated, is called n precipitate.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland