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/prɪsˌɪpɪtˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Precipitation n.

The act of precipitating, or the state of being precipitated, or thrown headlong. "In peril of precipitation From off rock Tarpeian."

A falling, flowing, or rushing downward with violence and rapidity. "The hurry, precipitation, and rapid motion of the water, returning... towards the sea."

Great hurry; rash, tumultuous haste; impetuosity. "The precipitation of inexperience."

(Chem.) The act or process of precipitating from a solution.

(Meteorology) A deposit on the earth of hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow; also, the quantity of water deposited. Note: Deposits of dew, fog, and frost are not regarded by the United States Weather Bureau as precipitation. Sleet and snow are melted, and the record of precipitation shows the depth of the horizontal layers of water in hundredths of an inch or in millimeters.

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Etymology of 'Precipitation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Precipitation" Quotes from Famous Books

... came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... hid the barrel away with great precipitation; and, determined to leave nothing else undone, she called the reapers and bid them go directly to the large field and reap the wheat. Then she went back, and began eating her dinner, saying, "Thank heaven, I have a good dinner to ...

— Funny Big Socks - Being the Fifth Book of the Series • Sarah L. Barrow

... case the worst I have feared should happen, they will smother me. You need not smile. They will; they always do. My uncle will be full of horror, weakness, precipitation; and that is the only expedient which will suggest itself to him. Nobody in the house will be self-possessed but you. Now promise to befriend me—to keep Mr. Sympson away from me, not to let Henry come near, lest I should hurt him. Mind—mind that you take care of yourself too. But I shall ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... entered into the imagination of the Bacchante even as she lay upon the grass; yet she rose with precipitation and filled a chalice to the brim with Falernian. Tiberius grasped it with an eager hand, and his mouth pressed the lip of the cup as if to drain its ruby vintage to the bottom. Suddenly, however, the eyes of the old man blazed with a raging light; the scowl of lust was forgotten; the vindictiveness ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various

... seconds, I was too overcome with terror to move, but my faculties at length reasserting themselves, I turned round and flew to the other wing of the house with the utmost precipitation. ...

— Animal Ghosts - Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter • Elliott O'Donnell

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