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
A special hall, with draught and ventilation, is set apart for precipitations by sulphureted hydrogen and the preparation of chlorine and other ill-smelling and deleterious gases.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various
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
But that series of precipitations had not yet taken place.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
