Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.

    Niederschlag

    оса́дкиosádki, атмосферные осадкиatmosfernyje osadki

    оса́дкаosádka

    the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

  2. (countable, uncountable)The amount of water precipitated in any form.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A hurried headlong fall.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier, and often less soluble, solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.

    Präzipitation

    выпаде́ние в оса́докvypadénije v osádok, осажде́ниеosaždénije, оса́докosádok

  5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Most precipitation comes from nimbus clouds.

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  2. There is a high chance of precipitation.

    ruСуществует большая вероятность выпадения осадков.

    deEs wird wohl Niederschlag geben.

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  3. Three hundred millimeters of precipitation fell overnight.

    ruЗа ночь выпало триста миллиметров осадков.

    deÜber Nacht fielen dreihundert Millimeter Niederschlag.

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  4. Three hundred millimetres of precipitation fell overnight.

    ruЗа ночь выпало триста миллиметров осадков.

    deÜber Nacht fielen dreihundert Millimeter Niederschlag.

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  5. High temperature extremes and heavy precipitation events are increasing.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
weather: water falling from the atmosphere:
Русский
By meaning 2
weather: water falling from the atmosphere:
chemistry: chemical reaction forming solid in liquid:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
weather: water falling from the atmosphere:
chemistry: chemical reaction forming solid in liquid:

Origin

From Middle French précipitation, from Latin praecipitātiō, praecipitātiōnem. By surface a

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

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