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Word: precipitate (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

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

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Noun:

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

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Verb:

  • intransitive|chemistry To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  • intransitive|meteorology To have condensed droplets.
  • transitive|chemistry To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  • transitive To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
  • transitive To send violently into a certain state or condition.
  • transitive To throw an object or person from a great height.

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