Usually means: Causing an event to happen.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. precipitating: Merriam-Webster
  2. precipitating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. precipitating: Vocabulary.com
  4. precipitating: Wordnik
  5. precipitating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. precipitating: Wiktionary
  7. precipitating: Dictionary.com
  8. precipitating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Precipitating: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Precipitating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Precipitating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. precipitating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. precipitating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. precipitating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. precipitating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precipitating: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. precipitating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. precipitating: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (precipitate)

verb:  (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
verb:  (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
verb:  (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
verb:  (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
verb:  (transitive) (chemistry) To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall headlong.
verb:  (intransitive) To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
adjective:  headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
adjective:  Very steep; precipitous.
adjective:  With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
adjective:  Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
adjective:  Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
noun:  A product resulting from a process, event, or course of action.
noun:  (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.
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