precipitation

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
noun the process of forming a chemical precipitate
noun the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

From Middle French précipitation, from Latin praecipitātiō, praecipitātiōnem. By surface analysis, precipitate + -ion.

How is this precipitation to be explained? — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
“Precipitation! d---n it, what would you have? — Paul Clifford — Complete, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
I did not act, however, with undue precipitation. — A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle

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