precipitate
IPA: prɪsˈɪpɪteɪt
noun
- a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
- (chemistry) a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution
verb
- (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
- (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- (intransitive, chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (transitive, chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- (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.
- (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- (intransitive) To fall headlong.
- (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
adjective
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Very steep; precipitous.
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
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Examples of "precipitate" in Sentences
- The tall trees precipitate the fog.
- The precipitate is inert for repellent activity.
- In other words, the dislocation will be attracted to the precipitate.
- The precipitate then is recovered from the solution.Another is treated with potassium fluoride to precipitate aluminum and titrated to determine acid.