precipitation

precipitation

See also: précipitation

English

Etymology

From Middle French précipitation, from Latin praecipitātiō, praecipitātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɪˌsɪpɪˈteɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

precipitation (countable and uncountable, plural precipitations)

1. (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     South Korea’s Ministry of Environment said in a news release that no major precipitation was observed after the cloud seeding operation.

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2. A hurried headlong fall.
3. (countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
4. (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
   • 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Duty and Inclination, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, page 49:

     Immediately on returning home, highly satisfied with the result of his visit to Mrs. Belmour, Melliphant found on his table a letter from Sir Howard, over which he cast his eyes with precipitation.

   • 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Mortals in the House”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Haunted House. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round […], volume II, London: […] C. Whiting, […], OCLC 781591950, page 6, column 1:

     The young man thanked me, and took his leave with some little precipitation, after declining a glass of liquor.

   • 1933, Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder Must Advertise

     […] had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hydrometeor

Derived terms

• aptaprecipitation
• aptoprecipitation
• bioprecipitation
• coprecipitation
• co-precipitation
• cryoprecipitation
• immunoprecipitation
• microprecipitation
• nanoprecipitation
• paleoprecipitation
• postprecipitation
• precip
• precipitation hardening
• precipitation reaction
• reprecipitation
• thermoprecipitation

 

Translations

weather: water falling from the atmosphere

Arabic: هُطُول‎ m (huṭūl) Bashkir: яуым-төшөм (yawım-töşöm) Belarusian: апа́дкі m pl (apádki) Bulgarian: валеж m (valež) Chinese: Mandarin: 降水量 (zh) (jiàngshuǐliàng) 降水 (zh) (jiàngshuǐ), 降雨量 (zh) (jiàngyǔliàng), 降雨 (zh) (jiàngyǔ) Czech: srážky (cs) f pl Danish: nedbør (da) c Dutch: neerslag (nl) m Faroese: avfall n Finnish: sade (fi) French: précipitation (fr) f Georgian: ნალექი (naleki) German: Niederschlag (de) m Greek: υετός (el) m (yetós) Hawaiian: kimu Hebrew: משקעים‎ m Hungarian: csapadék (hu) Icelandic: úrkoma (is) f Irish: comhdhlúthú m Italian: precipitazione (it) f Japanese: 降水量 (ja) (こうすいりょう, kōsuiryō), 降水 (ja) (こうすい, kōsui) Korean: 강수량(降水量) (ko) (gangsuryang), 강수(降水) (ko) (gangsu) Lao: ນ້ຳຝົນ (nam fon) Latgalian: krytuli m pl Malay: kerpasan Maori: tōtāwairehu Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: nedbør (no) m, presipitasjon m Nynorsk: nedbør m Persian: بارندگی‎ (fa) (bārandegi), نزولات‎ (nozulāt) Polish: opad atmosferyczny m Portuguese: precipitação (pt) f Romanian: precipitație (ro) f Russian: оса́дки (ru) m pl (osádki) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: па̏далине f pl (Croatia), па̏давине f pl (Bosnia, Serbia) Roman: pȁdaline (sh) f pl (Croatia), pȁdavine (sh) f pl (Bosnia, Serbia) Spanish: precipitación (es) f Swedish: nederbörd (sv) c Tagalog: kadanligan Thai: หยาดน้ำฟ้า (yàat-náam-fáa) Turkish: yağış (tr), nüzulat Ukrainian: оса́дка f (osádka) Vietnamese: giáng thủy Welsh: dyddodiad (cy) m

a hurried headlong fall

Bulgarian: стремителност (bg) f (stremitelnost) Icelandic: það að steypast áfram n, það að æða áfram n, það að flæða áfram n

chemistry: chemical reaction forming solid in liquid

Arabic: تَرَسُّب‎ m (tarassub) Bulgarian: утаяване n (utajavane) Chinese: Mandarin: 沉澱／沉淀 (zh) (chéndiàn) Czech: srážení n Finnish: saostuminen (fi) French: précipitation (fr) f German: Präzipitation f Hebrew: שיקוע‎ m Hungarian: kicsapódás (hu) Icelandic: felling (efnis úr lausn) f, botnfelling (efnis úr lausn) f, úrfelling (efnis úr lausn) f Japanese: 沈殿 (ja) (ちんでん, chinden) Latgalian: nūsiesšona f Malay: pemendakan Norwegian: utfelling m or f, presipitasjon m Portuguese: precipitação (pt) f Russian: выпаде́ние в оса́док n (vypadénije v osádok), осажде́ние (ru) n (osaždénije), оса́док (ru) m (osádok) Spanish: precipitación (es) f Swedish: utfällning c Tagalog: sahimuo Turkish: çökelme (tr), teressüb (tr)

unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste

Arabic: عجلة‎ f (ʿajala) Bulgarian: прибързаност (bg) f (pribǎrzanost) French: précipitation (fr) f Hungarian: sietség (hu) Icelandic: flýtir m, óðagot n, bráðræði n Latgalian: drystuošona f, skuba f Portuguese: precipitação (pt) f Turkish: acele (tr)

See also

• precipitation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• haste
• rashness

Anagrams

• intraepitopic