precipitating 的 4 个定义
pre·cip·i·tat·ed, pre·cip·i·tat·ing.
- to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- to cast down headlong; fling or hurl down.
- to cast, plunge, or send, especially violently or abruptly: He precipitated himself into the struggle.
- Chemistry. to separate in solid form from a solution, as by means of a reagent.
pre·cip·i·tat·ed, pre·cip·i·tat·ing.
- Meteorology. to fall to the earth's surface as a condensed form of water; to rain, snow, hail, drizzle, etc.
- to separate from a solution as a precipitate.
- to be cast or thrown down headlong.
- headlong: a precipitate fall down the stairs.
- rushing headlong or rapidly onward.
- proceeding rapidly or with great haste: a precipitate retreat.
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- Chemistry. a substance precipitated from a solution.
- moisture condensed in the form of rain, snow, etc.
precipitating 近义词
hurry, speed
更多precipitating例句
- On June 12, 1971, Ellsberg received a panicked call from a Times editor to whom he had given a portion of the papers for a book the editor was writing on the Gulf of Tonkin incident that had precipitated America’s deeper involvement in the war.
- On average, the decline in democracy precipitated by these coups is much steeper than the one seen in the full data set, with the average V-Dem rating falling by more than half.
- Western Siberia experienced an exceptionally warm winter and spring, conditions that precipitated the summer’s unprecedented wildfires.
- In the case of McKamey, the precipitating cause of death does not seem to have been determined.
- The Gallipoli invasion was the precipitating event in the Ottoman genocide against its Armenian population.
- Going over the fiscal cliff would have meant the U.S. defaulting on its debts and precipitating a global financial meltdown.
- “There was no precipitating event, no hate-crime incident,” explained Sun, a junior studying art.
- The great financial firm collapsed under an avalanche of bad debts based on bad bets in 2008, precipitating the global crisis.
- The precipitating causes are those which are closely related in time or circumstance to the actual misbehaviour.
- As they gained the bridge their pursuers were at hand, precipitating them over it into the Sutlej.
- This was confirmed by dissolving the lead chloride in hot water and precipitating as lead sulphide.
- Obviously, a specific interference of ammonium salts with the precipitating power of ammonium hydroxide is involved.
- Knocking the sketch to one side and precipitating three books and a mass of papers to the floor, Red stood up.