precipitation

See also: précipitation

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French précipitation, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin praecipitatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˌsɪpɪˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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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 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.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:

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

   • Dorothy Sayers

     […] 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)
• 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
• Hawaiian: kimu
• Hebrew: משקעים
• Hungarian: csapadék (hu)
• Icelandic: úrkoma (is) f
• 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 (ko) (gangsuryang) (降水量 (ko)), 강수 (ko) (gangsu) (降水 (ko))
• Lao: ນ້ຳຝົນ (nâm fǒn)
• Latgalian: krytuli m pl
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• 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: падалине f pl (Croatia), падавине f pl (Bosnia, Serbia)

  Roman: padaline (sh) f pl (Croatia), padavine (sh) f pl (Bosnia, Serbia)

• Spanish: precipitación (es) f lluvia (es) f
• Swedish: nederbörd (sv) c
• Tagalog: kadanligan
• Thai: หยาดน้ำฟ้า (yàat-náam-fáa)
• Turkish: yağış (tr)
• Ukrainian: оса́дка f (osádka)
• Vietnamese: giáng thủy

a hurried headlong fall

• Icelandic: það að steypast áfram n, það að æða áfram n, það að flæða áfram n
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chemistry: chemical reaction forming solid in liquid

• Arabic: تَرَسُّب m (tarassub)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沉澱／沉淀 (zh) (chéndiàn), 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
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• Japanese: 沈殿 (ja) (ちんでん, chinden)
• Latgalian: nūsiesšona f
• 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)

unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste

• Arabic: عجلة f (ʿajala)
• French: précipitation (fr) f
• Hungarian: sietség (hu)
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• Icelandic: flýtir m, óðagot n, bráðræði n
• Latgalian: drystuošona f, skuba f
• Portuguese: precipitação (pt) f

See also

• haste
• rashness

Anagrams

• intraepitopic