All 14 Uses of
precipitate
in
Dune
- My answer could precipitate violence or …. what?†
Book 1 (definition 2)
- It's the major source of water here, caught in windtraps and precipitators.†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- …. include heat exchange filaments and salt precipitators.†
Book 1 (definition 1) *
- You moved too precipitately for the good of our enterprise.†
Book 1 (definition 2) *
- When we have moisture locked in grasslands, we'll move on to start upland forests, then a few open bodies of water—small at first—and situated along lines of prevailing winds with windtrap moisture precipitators spaced in the lines to recapture what the wind steals.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- They've a concealed windtrap somewhere on the surface to funnel air down here into cooler regions and precipitate the moisture from it.†
Book 2 (definition 2)
- The dripping of water precipitated from the windtrap filled the room with its presence.†
Book 2 (definition 1)
- The air that came in to them held the chill not-quite-dryness that would precipitate trace dew in the dawn.†
Book 3 (definition 2)
- Jessica nodded to herself, remembering her son's ambivalent feelings toward the spice drug and the prescient awareness it precipitated.†
Book 3 (definition 1)
- And there were the terraform desert plants: the tougher ones showed signs of thriving if planted in depressions lined with dew precipitators.†
Book A1 - (definition 1)
- DEW COLLECTORS or DEW PRECIPITATORS: not to be confused with dew gatherers.†
Book Term (definition 1)
- Collectors or precipitators are egg-shaped devices about four centimeters on the long axis.†
Book Term (definition 1)
- The collector forms a markedly cold surface upon which dawn dew will precipitate.†
Book Term (definition 2)
- WINDTRAP: a device placed in the path of a prevailing wind and capable of precipitating moisture from the air caught within it, usually by a sharp and distinct drop in temperature within the trap.†
Book Term (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (precipitate as in: it precipitated a revolution) make something happen or to fall or move -- typically suddenly and often of something undesired
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(2) (precipitate as in: a precipitate decision) acting with great haste -- often without adequate thought