accelerate vs precipitate

accelerate

adj
  • Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried. 

verb
  • To become faster; to begin to move more quickly. 

  • To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time. 

  • Grow; increase. 

  • To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of. 

  • To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of. 

  • To cause a change of velocity. 

  • To hasten, as the occurrence of an event. 

precipitate

adj
  • With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong. 

  • Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty. 

  • headlong; falling steeply or vertically. 

  • Performed very rapidly or abruptly. 

  • Very steep; precipitous. 

noun
  • a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution 

  • a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action 

verb
  • To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form. 

  • To throw an object or person from a great height. 

  • To act too hastily; to be precipitous. 

  • To send violently into a certain state or condition. 

  • To make something happen suddenly and quickly. 

  • To come out of a liquid solution into solid form. 

  • To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets. 

  • To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground. 

  • To fall headlong. 

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