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
It followed that they were regions of increased heat—regions, in fact, where the temperature was too high to permit the occurrence of the precipitations to which the photosphere is due.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Evaporation of the solvent is avoided, and in consequence a freedom from vexatious precipitations is secured, and more uniform and reliable results are obtained.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various
