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PRECIPITATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
Example:
he soon regretted his haste
Synonyms:
haste; hastiness; hurriedness; hurry; precipitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("precipitation" is a kind of...):
fastness; speed; swiftness (a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "precipitation"):
abruptness; precipitance; precipitancy; precipitateness; precipitousness; suddenness (the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An unexpected acceleration or hastening
Example:
he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("precipitation" is a kind of...):
acceleration (an increase in rate of change)
Derivation:
precipitate (hurl or throw violently)
precipitate (bring about abruptly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("precipitation" is a kind of...):
drop; fall (a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity)
Derivation:
precipitate (hurl or throw violently)
precipitate (fall vertically, sharply, or headlong)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
Synonyms:
downfall; precipitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("precipitation" is a kind of...):
atmospheric condition; conditions; weather; weather condition (the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation)
Meronyms (parts of "precipitation"):
diamond dust; frost mist; frost snow; ice crystal; ice needle; poudrin; snow mist (small crystals of ice)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "precipitation"):
fine spray (precipitation in very small drops)
hail (precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents)
rain; rainfall (water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere)
sleet (partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow))
snow; snowfall (precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals)
virga (light wispy precipitation that evaporates before it reaches the ground (especially when the lower air is low in humidity))
Derivation:
precipitate (fall from clouds)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The process of forming a chemical precipitate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("precipitation" is a kind of...):
chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)
Derivation:
precipitate (separate as a fine suspension of solid particles)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
Example:
the storm brought several inches of precipitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("precipitation" is a kind of...):
indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)
Derivation:
precipitate (fall from clouds)
Context examples:
The advantage of using MoAb 48.7 Fab fragments over whole antibodies is that they have reduced immunogenicity, better penetration of tissues, rapid clearance from the body and that they do not induce precipitation.
(Monoclonal Antibody 48.7 F(ab), NCI Thesaurus)
The advantage of using MoAb 96.5 Fab fragments over whole antibodies is that they have reduced immunogenicity, better penetration of tissues, rapid clearance from the body and that they do not induce precipitation.
(Monoclonal Antibody 96.5 F(ab), NCI Thesaurus)
The concentration of a solute or dispersion above which spontaneous aggregation or precipitation occurs.
(Critical Concentration, NCI Thesaurus)
Other factors also contribute to 'gator patterns of movement, such as temperature and precipitation, which are linked with their need to balance salt intake.
(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)
I would have seized him, but he eluded me and quitted the house with precipitation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
This finding therefore opens a novel field of the greatest interest, about microbial precipitation in seawater and the role of extracellular polymeric substances in mineral precipitation and the absorption of diverse metals.
(Researchers discover the oceanic precipitation mechanism for barium, which is a proxy for marine bacterial productivity, University of Granada)
The liquid, solid or semi-solid lying below a liquid residue, which is separated by crystallization, precipitation or centrifugation of a biological sample.
(Infrantant, NCI Thesaurus)
The liquid, solid or semi-solid lying below a liquid residue, which is separated by crystallization, precipitation or centrifugation of a plasma sample.
(Plasma Infranatant, NCI Thesaurus)
The liquid lying above a liquid, solid or semi-solid residue, which is separated by crystallization, precipitation or centrifugation of a plasma sample.
(Plasma Supernatant, NCI Thesaurus)
Significantly more water was lost from cracks and soil within fractured mountain rock during drought and gained during heavy precipitation than hydrology models show.
(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)
