Precipitation

Noun

 * 1) A hurried headlong fall.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the 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.
 * 4)  Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
 * had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase -- Dorothy Sayers

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:hydrometeor

Adjectives for Precipitation
complete; extraordinary; daily.

Thesaurus
Scotch mist, abruptness, air speed, alacrity, alluvion, alluvium, ash, blood rain, carelessness, celerity, cinder, clinker, deposit, deposition, deposits, desperateness, devil-may-careness, diluvium, dispatch, downcast, downpour, downthrow, draff, dregs, drizzle, dross, ember, evening mist, expedition, expeditiousness, fall, fastness, feces, feverishness, flight, flit, flurry, forwardness, froth, furiousness, gout of rain, ground speed, grounds, hail, haste, hastiness, heedlessness, hotheadedness, hurriedness, hurry, impatience, impetuosity, impetuousness, impulse, impulsiveness, instantaneousness, knots, lees, lightning speed, loess, miles per hour, mist, misty rain, mizzle, moisture, moraine, offscum, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overhastiness, overthrow, overturn, overzealousness, patter, pitter-patter, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitate, precipitateness, precipitousness, precociousness, precocity, prematureness, prematurity, promptitude, promptness, quickness, rain, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, rapidity, rashness, recklessness, round pace, rpm, rush, scoria, scum, sediment, sedimentation, settlings, sheet of rain, shower, showers, silt, sinter, slag, sleet, smut, snappiness, snow, snowfall, soot, speed, speediness, splatter, sprinkle, sublimate, suddenness, swift rate, swiftness, unfrozen hydrometeor, untimeliness, velocity, wantonness, wet, wildness

Translations

 * Icelandic: það að steypast áfram, það að æða áfram , það að flæða áfram


 * Arabic: ترسب
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 沉澱, 沉淀
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * German: Präzipitation
 * Hebrew: שיקוע
 * Icelandic: felling (efnis úr lausn), botnfelling (efnis úr lausn) , úrfelling (efnis úr lausn)


 * Japanese: 沈殿
 * Norwegian: utfelling and, presipitasjon
 * Russian: выпадение в осадок, осаждение,  осадок
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: utfällning


 * Arabic: هطول
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 降水, 降雨量,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: משקעים


 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese:, 降水
 * Korean:,   (降水)
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: opad atmosferyczny
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * French:


 * Icelandic: flýtir, óðagot , bráðræði

Derived terms

 * precipitately