Definition/Meaning of precipitate

• English - Verb: precipitate (third-person singular simple present precipitates, present participle precipitating, simple past and past participle precipitated) (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly. it precipitated their success to precipitate a journey, or a conflict (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height . 1822 May 21, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving],…
• English - Adjective: precipitate (comparative more precipitate, superlative most precipitate) headlong ; falling steeply or vertically. 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, book 2, lines 853–854: When the full stores their ancient bounds disdain, / Precipitate the furious torrent flows. Very steep; precipitous . With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong . 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in…
• English - Noun: precipitate (plural precipitates) A product resulting from a process , event , or course of action . 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 381: As for the musculature it is a precipitate of Spirit and the signature of the cosmos is in it. A solid that exit s the liquid phase of a solution .
• English - Alternative forms: præcipitate ( obsolete )
• English - Related terms: precipitous