"rainfall" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-rainfall.wav Forms: rainfalls [plural]
Etymology: From rain + fall. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|rain|fall}} rain + fall Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} rainfall (countable and uncountable, plural rainfalls)
  1. (meteorology) The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Meteorology, Rain Translations (meteorology: amount of rain): reënval (Afrikaans), вале́ж (valéž) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 雨量 (yǔliàng) (Chinese Mandarin), 降雨量 (jiàngyǔliàng) (Chinese Mandarin), neerslag [masculine] (Dutch), regenval [masculine] (Dutch), sademäärä (Finnish), sadanta (Finnish), précipitations [feminine] (French), Niederschlag [masculine] (German), Niederschlagshöhe [feminine] (German), Niederschlagsmenge [feminine] (German), Regenfall [masculine] (German), βροχόπτωση (vrochóptosi) [feminine] (Greek), acquazzone [masculine] (Italian), rovescio [masculine] (Italian), 降雨量 (kōuryō) (alt: こううりょう) (Japanese), 雨量 (uryō) (alt: うりょう) (Japanese), ಪರ್ಜನ್ಯ (parjanya) (Kannada), ಮಳೆಸುರಿತ (maḷesurita) (Kannada), ಮಳೆಯಳತೆ (maḷeyaḷate) (Kannada), nokrišņu daudzums (Latvian), kritulių kiekis (Lithuanian), вр́неж (vŕnež) [masculine] (Macedonian), nedbør [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), precipitação (Portuguese), коли́чество оса́дков (kolíčestvo osádkov) [neuter] (Russian), дождь (doždʹ) [masculine] (Russian), оса́дки (osádki) [masculine, plural] (Russian), ли́вень (lívenʹ) (english: heavy rainfall) [masculine] (Russian), uisge-adhair (Scottish Gaelic), precipitación [feminine] (Spanish), nederbörd [common-gender] (Swedish), regn [neuter] (Swedish), వర్షపాతము (varṣapātamu) (Telugu), ཆར་བབས (english: char babs) (Tibetan), lượng mưa (Vietnamese), glawiad [masculine] (Welsh) Translations (meteorology: occasion of raining): sade (Finnish), vesisade (Finnish), βροχόπτωση (vrochóptosi) [feminine] (Greek)
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  2. The occurrence of liquid precipitation, the fall of rain. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-rainfall-en-noun-6c-UAruz
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: effective rainfall, excess rainfall, excessive rainfall, initial rainfall, inversion of rainfall, orographic rainfall, point rainfall, rainfall component, rainfall distribution, rainfall duration, rainfall effectiveness, rainfall excess, rainfall frequency, rainfall intensity, rainfall intensity area curve, rainfall intensity-duration curve, rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curve, rainfall intensity frequency, rainfall intensity pattern, rainfall intensity return period, rainfall loss, rainfall rate, rainfall regime, rainfall station, rate-of-rainfall gauge, residual rainfall, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Inflected forms

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      "word": "rainfall loss"
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      "word": "rainfall regime"
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      "word": "rainfall station"
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      "word": "rate-of-rainfall gauge"
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      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "reënval"
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      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "雨量"
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      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
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      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
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      "word": "regenval"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "sademäärä"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "βροχόπτωση"
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      "roman": "parjanya",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "ಪರ್ಜನ್ಯ"
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      "roman": "maḷesurita",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "ಮಳೆಸುರಿತ"
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      "lang": "Kannada",
      "roman": "maḷeyaḷate",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "ಮಳೆಯಳತೆ"
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      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "nokrišņu daudzums"
    },
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "kritulių kiekis"
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      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "vŕnež",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "nedbør"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "precipitação"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kolíčestvo osádkov",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "коли́чество оса́дков"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "doždʹ",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "дождь"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "osádki",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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      "word": "оса́дки"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "heavy rainfall",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lívenʹ",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ли́вень"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "uisge-adhair"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "precipitación"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "nederbörd"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
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      "word": "regn"
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    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "varṣapātamu",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "వర్షపాతము"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "english": "char babs",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "ཆར་བབས"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "word": "lượng mưa"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "meteorology: amount of rain",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "glawiad"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "meteorology: occasion of raining",
      "word": "sade"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "meteorology: occasion of raining",
      "word": "vesisade"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "vrochóptosi",
      "sense": "meteorology: occasion of raining",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "βροχόπτωση"
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}

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