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Precentorship
- noun - the position of precentor
Preceptorship
- noun - the position of preceptor
Precipitances
- noun - the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
Precipitantly
- - With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.
Precipitately
- adverb - at breakneck speed; "burst headlong through the gate"
Precipitating
- verb - bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
- bringing on suddenly or abruptly; "the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce"
- fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"
- fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"
- hurl or throw violently; "The bridge broke and precipitated the train into the river below"
- separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
Precipitation
- noun -
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening; "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"
- rain
- the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- the process of forming a chemical precipitate
- the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time; "the storm brought several inches of precipitation"
Precipitators
- noun - removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation
Precipitously
- adverb - abruptly; in a precipitous manner; "the mountains rose precipitously from the shore"
- Quickly
- very suddenly and to a great degree; "conditions that precipitously increase the birthrate"; "prices rose sharply"
Precisenesses
- noun - clarity as a consequence of precision
- the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance; "he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton"; "note the meticulous precision of his measurements"