PRECIPITATE

precipitate

Noun

  1. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
  2. A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

Verb

  1. To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
    to precipitate a journey, or a conflict
  2. To throw an object or person from a great height.
  3. To send violently into a certain state or condition.
  4. To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
    Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.
  5. To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  6. To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
    It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.
  7. To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.

Adjective

  1. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
  2. Very steep; precipitous.
  3. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
  4. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
    The king was too precipitate in declaring war.
    a precipitate case of disease
  5. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.


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