Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A shower or fall of rain.
- noun The quantity of water, expressed in inches, precipitated as rain, snow, hail, or sleet in a specified area and time interval.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A falling of rain; a shower.
- noun The precipitation of water from clouds; the water, or the amount of water, coming down as rain. The rainfall is measured by means of the pluviometer or rain-gage. The average rainfall of a district includes the snow, if any, reduced to its equivalent in water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain.
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- noun meteorology the
amount ofrain that falls on a single occasion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
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Examples
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The most obvious place to get water if not from rainfall is from the Earth's surface -- rivers, streams, and lakes.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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The most obvious place to get water if not from rainfall is from the Earth's surface -- rivers, streams, and lakes.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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The most obvious place to get water if not from rainfall is from the Earth's surface -- rivers, streams, and lakes.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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The most obvious place to get water if not from rainfall is from the Earth's surface -- rivers, streams, and lakes.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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The most obvious place to get water if not from rainfall is from the Earth's surface -- rivers, streams, and lakes.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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The most obvious place to get water if not from rainfall is from the Earth's surface -- rivers, streams, and lakes.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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As the IPCC report made clear, many of the models disagree even on the sign of the change in rainfall over much of the globe, especially for winter projections.
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As the IPCC report made clear, many of the models disagree even on the sign of the change in rainfall over much of the globe, especially for winter projections.
steve | Serendipity 2010
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(In truth, their annual rainfall is closer to half the amount we received this week alone.)
Jetlag : Bev Vincent 2009
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The most obvious place to get water if not from rainfall is from the Earth's surface -- rivers, streams, and lakes.
Bill Chameides: Where Has All The Water Gone? Bill Chameides 2010
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