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Precedently
- - Beforehand; antecedently.
Precellency
- - Excellence; superiority.
Preceptress
- - A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
Precessions
- noun - the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
- the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone
Precipitant
- adjective - an agent that causes a precipitate to form
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
Precipitate
- adjective - a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering
- bring about abruptly; "The crisis precipitated by Russia's revolution"
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
- 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
Precipitins
- noun - an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen
Precipitous
- adjective - done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
- extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"
Preciseness
- 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"
Preclinical
- adjective - of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared