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precipitation

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


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Besides attracting super-high tides, the El Niño climate pattern makes above-average precipitation over Southern California more likely.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

A few weeks ago, I biked to meet a source for coffee, since my Android phone’s AccuWeather widget had seemingly projected a low, low chance of precipitation in the area.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2026

Silver ions were effective at cutting the DNA, but they also attached nonspecifically and caused precipitation.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

"Since the beginning of the year, precipitation has been around 30 percent below normal levels," the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

Eight to twelve inches of precipitation was expected.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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

In all precipitations the reagent should be added slowly, with constant stirring, and should be hot when circumstances permit.

From An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis With Explanatory Notes by Henry P. Talbot

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

The normal mean precipitations are about 11.7, 14.5, 10.5 and 10.2 in. for the same seasons.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various




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