precipitation
noun
the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
precipitations
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pluralof precipitation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It looked at both extreme events and low-onset climate change, including coastal erosion, marine flooding, sea-level rise and extremes, soil and groundwater salinization, inland flooding resulting from heavy precipitations, and permafrost thaw.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023
They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
These snows are, in fact, precipitations of vapor, condensed by the cold, and carried with it successively.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap
Between cousins there exist the ties of race, name, and favor—ties thicker than water, and yet not coagulated with the jealous precipitations of brotherhood or the enjoining obligations of the matrimonial yoke.
From Rolling Stones by O. Henry
Smith has a great fondness for these brilliant precipitations.
