precipitate
noun
- solid formed in a solution as a result of chemical precipitation
verb
- liqid to fall
- to cause to happen
adjective
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Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈsɪpɪtət/ / /pɹəˈsɪpɪtət/ / /pɹɪˈsɪpɪteɪt/ / /pɹəˈsɪpɪteɪt/
adj
Etymology: From Latin praecipitātus (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
“When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows.”
- Very steep; precipitous.
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
“Though thoughtful far beyond your years, you are very inexperienced; and I would not have a preference that may originate in your little knowledge of others, or a romantic exaggeration of slight kindnesses, lead you into a precipitate union with me, unless you most seriously examine your own heart, and weigh the various consequences.”
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
“The king was too precipitate in declaring war.”
“a precipitate case of disease”
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
“It had cost me a distinct psychological effort to do so, and now that I was shut inside I had a momentary longing for precipitate retreat.”
noun
Etymology: From New Latin praecipitatum. Equivalent to Latin praecipitō + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
- A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
“As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it.”
- A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
verb
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”).
- To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
“to precipitate a journey, or a conflict”
“it precipitated their success”
- To throw an object or person from a great height.
“In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river.”
- To send violently into a certain state or condition.
“we were precipitated into a conflict”
- (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
“Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate.”
- (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.
“It will precipitate tomorrow, but we don't know whether as rain or snow.”
- To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
“The light vapour of the preceding evening had been precipitated by the cold.”
- To fall headlong.
- To act too hastily; to be precipitous.