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precipitation

[pri-sip-i-tay-shuhn] / prɪˌsɪp ɪˈteɪ ʃən /


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They are then heard saying the plane was "picking up precipitation" and "we need to climb".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

A significant storm system capable of producing strong updrafts, heavy precipitation and icing moved over southern Florida.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

The person said the plane was "picking up precipitation" and needed "to climb" shortly before saying: "Mayday, mayday, we're descending 10,000 feet per minute."

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

The last recorded rainfall on Halloween in L.A. occurred in 2014, when a quarter of an inch of precipitation fell on downtown Los Angeles, according to weather service records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

In uncut forest, the canopy intercepts precipitation, absorbing the physical impact of its fall from the clouds.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

It looked at both extreme events and low-onset climate change, including coastal erosion, marine flooding, sea-level rise and extremes, soil and groundwater salinization, inland flooding resulting from heavy precipitations, and permafrost thaw.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023

They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer.

From Time Magazine Archive

These snows are, in fact, precipitations of vapor, condensed by the cold, and carried with it successively.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap

A special hall, with draught and ventilation, is set apart for precipitations by sulphureted hydrogen and the preparation of chlorine and other ill-smelling and deleterious gases.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 by Various

And perhaps in the end the slopes were more laden by the smaller precipitations which deposited a daily accretion.

From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury


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