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Transpiration vs Precipitation - What's the difference?

transpiration | precipitation |

As nouns the difference between transpiration and precipitation

is that transpiration is (botany) the loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots while precipitation is precipitation, unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.

transpiration

Noun

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  • (botany) The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied by a corresponding uptake from the roots.
  • (physiology) The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes.
  • The passage of gases through fine tubes.
  • 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

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    Derived terms

    * precipitately

    See also

    (wikipedia ) * haste * rashness