PRECIPITANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does precipitant mean? 

• PRECIPITANT (noun)
  The noun PRECIPITANT has 1 sense:

1. an agent that causes a precipitate to form

  Familiarity information: PRECIPITANT used as a noun is very rare.

• PRECIPITANT (adjective)
  The adjective PRECIPITANT has 1 sense:

1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation

  Familiarity information: PRECIPITANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRECIPITANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agent that causes a precipitate to form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("precipitant" is a kind of...):

agent (a substance that exerts some force or effect)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "precipitant"):

dimethylglyoxime (a compound used in analysis as a precipitant for palladium or nickel)

Derivation:

precipitate (separate as a fine suspension of solid particles)

• PRECIPITANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Done with very great haste and without due deliberation

Synonyms:

hasty; overhasty; precipitant; precipitate; precipitous

Context example:

wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king

Similar:

hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)

Derivation:

precipitance; precipitancy (the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning)

precipitate (bring about abruptly)

 Context examples 

Separation of a product from a saturated solution by cooling the liquid or adding precipitants which lower the solubility of the desired product so that it forms crystals.

(Crystallization Purification, NCI Thesaurus)