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Precipitation   /prɪsˌɪpɪtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Precipitation

noun
1.
The quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time.
2.
The process of forming a chemical precipitate.
3.
The falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist).  Synonym: downfall.
4.
The act of casting down or falling headlong from a height.
5.
An unexpected acceleration or hastening.
6.
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness).  Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry.



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... the 'literary' merits of this hasty composition were idle and presumptuous. If it be found to possess that impetuosity of transition, and that precipitation of fancy and feeling, which are the 'essential' excellencies of the sublimer Ode, its deficiency in less important respects will be easily pardoned by those from whom alone praise could give me pleasure: and ...
— Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. • Coleridge, ed. Turnbull
... 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 ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte
... on with a storm of wind and rain they could not overtake them, as they were positively ordered to keep their ranks. The enemy, finding they could neither possess nor save their camp, set fire to their tents and retreated with great precipitation towards Linlithgow, and were just got to the east end of the toun of Falkirk when Lord John Drummond entered it on that side, Lord George Murray in the middle, and Lochiel in the west end of the toun. We ...
— The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) - (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) • James Pringle Thomson
... probably the reason, why calcined magnesia is saturated with a quantity of acid, somewhat less than what is required to dissolve it before calcination: and the same may be assigned as one cause which hinders us from restoring the whole of its original weight, by solution and precipitation. ...
— Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances • Joseph Black
... of fruit. It may be laid down as a rule that the grape lives by sunlight, warmth and air—it often thrives on the desert's edge. These considerations make it manifest that the monthly and seasonal means of precipitation must be considered in selecting ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick


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