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Plating vs Precipitation - What's the difference?

plating | precipitation |

As nouns the difference between plating and precipitation

is that plating is (philately) an act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet while precipitation is precipitation, unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.

As a verb plating

is .

plating

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philately) An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
  • A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
  • A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
  • precipitation

    English

    Noun

  • (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
  • A hurried headlong fall.
  • (countable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
  • (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
  • had acted with some precipitation and had probably started out upon a wild-goose chase --

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * precipitately

    See also

    (wikipedia ) * haste * rashness