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Definition precipitate

Etymology 1

From Latin praecipitatus, from Latin praecipit? (“throw down, hurl down, throw headlong”), from praeceps (“head foremost, headlong”), from prae (“before”) + caput (“head”).

Verb

precipitate (third-person singular simple present precipitates, present participle precipitating, simple past and past participle precipitated)

1. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
2. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
3. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
4. (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
5. (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
6. (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.
7. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
8. (intransitive) To fall headlong.
9. (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.

Adjective

precipitate (comparative more precipitate, superlative most precipitate)

1. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
2. Very steep; precipitous.
3. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
4. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
5. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.

Etymology 2

From New Latin praecipitatum.

Noun

precipitate (plural precipitates)

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

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