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What does precipitate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word precipitate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly; hasten.
  2. (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
  3. (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
  4. (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  5. (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  6. (intransitive, meteorology) To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
  7. (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
Adjective
  1. headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
  2. Very steep; precipitous.
  3. With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
  4. Moving with excessive speed or haste.
  5. Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
Noun
  1. A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
  2. (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
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