verb

• (transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
  "to precipitate a journey, or a conflict"
• (transitive) To throw an object or person from a great height.
  "In gallopping heedlessly along, with her eyes turned upwards, she had unwarily approached too near the bank; it had given way with her, and she and her horse had been precipitated to the pebbled margin of the river."
• (transitive) To send violently into a certain state or condition.
  "we were precipitated into a conflict"
• (intransitive) (chemistry) To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
  "Adding the acid will cause the salt to precipitate."

noun

• (chemistry) A solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution.