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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
precipitant is a noun and adjective meaning "an agent that causes a precipitate to form". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an agent that causes a precipitate to form
done with very great haste and without due deliberation
“hasty marriage seldom proveth well”
“hasty makeshifts take the place of planning”
“rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion”
“wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for precipitant come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.