precipitating
— Adjective
– English
～ bringing on suddenly or abruptly; "the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce"
precipitation
— Noun
– English
～ the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time; "the storm brought several inches of precipitation"
precipitation
— Noun
– English
～ the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
precipitation
— Noun
– English
～ the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
precipitation
— Noun
– English
～ the process of forming a chemical precipitate
precipitation
— Noun
– English
～ an unexpected acceleration or hastening; "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"
precipitation
— Noun
– English
～ overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
precipitator
— Noun
– English
～ removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation
precipitin
— Noun
– English
～ an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen
precipitous
— Adjective
– English
～ done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
precipitous
— Adjective
– English
～ extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
precipitously
— Adverb
– English
～ very suddenly and to a great degree; "conditions that precipitously increase the birthrate"; "prices rose sharply"
precipitously
— Adverb
– English
～ abruptly; in a precipitous manner; "the mountains rose precipitously from the shore"
precipitousness
— Noun
– English
～ the property possessed by a slope that is very steep
precipitousness
— Noun
– English
～ the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
precis
— Noun
– English
～ a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
precise
— Adjective
– English
～ (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"
precise
— Adjective
– English
～ sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"
precisely
— Adverb
– English
～ in a precise manner; "she always expressed herself precisely"