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
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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
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1. The act of precipitating. 2. The process of formation of a deposit of solid matter held in solution or suspension in a liquid. 3. The phenomenon of clumping of proteins in serum produced by the addition of a specific precipitin. 4. Haste, headlong hurry, precipitancy.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Great hurry; tumultuous and blind haste; the operation of throwing down from a liquid a substance held in solution; the process of separating any substance from another. Note.-When substances held in solution fall down in a solid state, they are called precipitates; substances merely suspended in a liquid, as earthy matter in water, which fall or settle down, are called sediments-in the former case the operating cause is chemical, in the latter mechanical.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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
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