Usually means: Water falling from the sky.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. precipitation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. precipitation: Merriam-Webster
  3. precipitation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. precipitation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. precipitation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. precipitation: Vocabulary.com
  7. precipitation: Wordnik
  8. precipitation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Precipitation: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. precipitation: Wiktionary
  11. precipitation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. precipitation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. precipitation: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. precipitation: Dictionary.com
  15. precipitation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. precipitation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Precipitation (chemistry), Precipitation (disambiguation), Precipitation (meteorology), Precipitation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Precipitation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. precipitation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. precipitation: Rhymezone
  21. precipitation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. precipitation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. precipitation: FreeDictionary.org
  24. precipitation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. precipitation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Precipitation: Wordnik

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Precipitation (chemistry), Precipitation (disambiguation), precipitation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Precipitation (chemistry), Precipitation (disambiguation), Precipitation (meteorology), precipitation: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. precipitation: A Word A Day
  3. precipitation: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  2. precipitation: Evolution Glossary
  3. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)
  4. PRECIPITATION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Precipitation: Sports Definitions

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Precipitation: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  8. PRECIPITATION: Power Engineering
  9. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  (meteorology) 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.
noun:  (meteorology) The amount of water precipitated in any form.
noun:  A hurried headlong fall.
noun:  (countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
noun:  (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.

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