precipitation
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
the storm brought several inches of precipitation
Types & categories
- indefinite quantity hypernym
Related & opposite
- precipitate derivation
Sense 2 noun
the process of forming a chemical precipitate
Types & categories
- chemical process hypernym
Related & opposite
- precipitate derivation
Sense 3 noun
the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- ice crystal part meronym
Related & opposite
- precipitate derivation
Sense 4 noun
the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
Types & categories
- drop hypernym
Related & opposite
- precipitate derivation
- precipitate derivation
Sense 5 noun
an unexpected acceleration or hastening
he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise
Types & categories
- acceleration hypernym
Related & opposite
- precipitate derivation
- precipitate derivation
Sense 6 noun
overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
he soon regretted his haste
Types & categories
- fastness hypernym
- precipitateness hyponym
Related & opposite
- hasten derivation
- hurried derivation
- headlong derivation
- precipitate derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | precipitate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | indefinite quantity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | precipitate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | chemical process |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | precipitate |
| 3 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | ice crystal |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | weather |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fine spray |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hail |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | rain |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sleet |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | snow |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | virga |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | precipitate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | precipitate |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | drop |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | precipitate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | precipitate |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | acceleration |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | hasten |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | hurried |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | headlong |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | precipitate |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | fastness |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | precipitateness |