precipitate
Meanings
Verb
- To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- To throw an object or person from a great height.
- To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- To fall headlong.
- To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
Adjective
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Very steep; precipitous.
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
Noun
- a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
- a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution
Related
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Origin
- From Latin praecipitatus, from praecipitÅ, from praeceps, from prae + caput.
- From New Latin praecipitatum. precipitato.
Modern English dictionary
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