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precipitate

Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/

The English word “precipitate” has 16 meanings listed here.

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

Etymology

From Latin praecipitātus, perfect passive participle of praecipitō (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”) (praecipit- in its oblique stem), from prae (“before”) + -ceps (“headed”).

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