precipitación

Definitions of precipitación
  1. noun
    the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
    synonyms: apresuración, apresuramiento, prisa, tropel, urgencia, ímpetu
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    arrebatiña, cachaña, correteo, lucha, movimiento, pelea, subida
    rushing about hastily in an undignified way
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    movimiento, traslado
    the act of changing location from one place to another
  2. noun
    hasty impulsiveness
    synonyms: prisa
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    impulsividad
    the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection
  3. noun
    overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
    synonyms: apresuración, apresuramiento, impetuosidad, prisa
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    brusquedad, lo inesperado
    the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
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    velocidad
    a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
  4. noun
    the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
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    granizo, pedrisco, piedra
    precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
    lluvia, pluviosidad
    water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
    aguanieve, cellisca
    partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)
    nevada, nevado, nieve, nivosidad
    precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
    llovedera, temporal de lluvias
    a storm with rain
    aguacero, chaparrada, chaparrón, chubasco, diluvio, manga, nubada, remojón, turbión
    a heavy rain
    calabobos, cernidillo, chirimiri, llovizna, marea, serimiri, sirimiri, tapayagua
    very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
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    condiciones metereológicas, elemento, tiempo
    the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation
  5. noun
    water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
    synonyms: lluvia, pluviosidad
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    llovedera, temporal de lluvias
    a storm with rain
    aguacero, chaparrada, chaparrón, chubasco, diluvio, manga, nubada, remojón, turbión
    a heavy rain
    calabobos, cernidillo, chirimiri, llovizna, marea, serimiri, sirimiri, tapayagua
    very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
    llovizna, salpicadura
    a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
  6. noun
    the process of forming a chemical precipitate
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    proceso químico
    (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved
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