precipitin

1. 1.

   an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen

   Broaderantibody

Other forms of precipitin

plural

precipitins·

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.

Questions about precipitin

What does precipitin mean?

precipitin means "an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen".

How many syllables are in precipitin?

precipitin has 4 syllables: pre-ci-pi-tin. The stress falls on "ci".

Is precipitin a common word?

precipitin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.