Precipitate meaning

prĭ-sĭp'ĭ-tāt'

Moving rapidly and heedlessly; speeding headlong.

adjective

To cause (a form of water, as rain or snow) to fall from the air.

verb

To cause (a solid substance) to be separated from a solution.

verb

To throw headlong; hurl downward.

verb

To fall from the air as a form of water, such as rain or snow.

verb

To be separated from a solution as a solid.

verb

To cause to happen before expected, warranted, needed, or desired; bring on; hasten.

To precipitate a crisis.

verb

To condense (water vapor) and cause to fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, etc.

verb

To be precipitated.

verb

To condense and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, etc.

verb

Falling steeply, rushing headlong, flowing swiftly, etc.

adjective

Acting, happening, or done very hastily or rashly; impetuous; headstrong.

adjective

Very sudden, unexpected, or abrupt.

adjective

A substance that is precipitated out from a solution or gas.

noun

To fall from the atmosphere as rain, snow, or another form of precipitation.

verb

To separate as a solid from a solution in chemical precipitation.

verb

A solid material precipitated from a solution.

noun

To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.

To precipitate a journey, or a conflict.

verb

To throw an object or person from a great height.

verb

To send violently into a certain state or condition.

verb

(intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.

Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.

verb

(chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.

verb

(intransitive, meteorology) 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.

verb

To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.

verb

A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.

noun

(chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.

noun

Headlong; falling steeply or vertically.

adjective

Very steep; precipitous.

adjective

With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.

adjective

Moving with excessive speed or haste.

The king was too precipitate in declaring war.

A precipitate case of disease.

adjective

Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

adjective

The definition of precipitate is something that happens suddenly, falls steeply or acts quickly.

An example of precipitate is jumping from a sinking ship without a life vest.

adjective

Precipitate is defined as to throw something downward or cause something to happen before expected.

An example of precipitate is a car driving off a cliff.

verb

To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely.

An announcement that precipitated a political crisis.

verb

To cause to fall down from a height; hurl downward.

verb

To put suddenly into a certain state or condition.

verb

Acting with or marked by excessive haste and lack of due deliberation.

adjective

Occurring suddenly or unexpectedly.

adjective

A solid or solid phase separated from a solution.

noun

A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.

noun

Origin of precipitate

Latin praecipitāre praecipitāt- to throw headlong from praeceps praecipit- headlong prae- pre- caput capit- head kaput- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin praecipitÅ (“throw down, hurl down"), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong"), from prae (“before") + caput (“head").

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