Usually means: Substance causing another to precipitate.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word precipitant:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. precipitant: Merriam-Webster
  2. precipitant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. precipitant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. precipitant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. precipitant: Vocabulary.com
  6. precipitant: Wordnik
  7. precipitant: Wiktionary
  8. precipitant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. precipitant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. precipitant: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. precipitant: Dictionary.com
  12. Precipitant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Precipitant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. precipitant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. precipitant: Rhymezone
  16. Precipitant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. precipitant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. precipitant: FreeDictionary.org
  19. precipitant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. precipitant: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precipitant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precipitant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. precipitant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. precipitant: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See precipitantly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (precipitant)

adjective:  Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.
adjective:  Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.
adjective:  (chiefly figurative) Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast, rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.
adjective:  (chemistry) That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
adverb:  (archaic) Synonym of precipitantly (“in a precipitant or headlong manner; with foolish or rash haste”)
noun:  Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
noun:  (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.

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