rainfall

English

Etymology

From rain +‎ fall.

Pronunciation

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Noun

rainfall (countable and uncountable, plural rainfalls)

1. (meteorology) The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion
2. The occurrence of liquid precipitation, the fall of rain.

Derived terms

Terms derived from rainfall

• 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

Translations

meteorology: amount of rain

• Afrikaans: reënval
• Bulgarian: вале́ж m (valéž)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雨量 (zh) (yǔliàng), 降雨量 (zh) (jiàngyǔliàng)

• Dutch: neerslag (nl) m, regenval (nl) m
• Finnish: sademäärä (fi), sadanta (fi)
• French: précipitations (fr) f
• German: Niederschlag (de) m, Niederschlagshöhe f, Niederschlagsmenge (de) f, Regenfall (de) m
• Greek: βροχόπτωση (el) f (vrochóptosi)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: acquazzone (it) m, rovescio (it) m
• Japanese: 降雨量 (こううりょう, kōuryō), 雨量 (ja) (うりょう, uryō)
• Kannada: ಪರ್ಜನ್ಯ (kn) (parjanya), ಮಳೆಸುರಿತ (kn) (maḷesurita), ಮಳೆಯಳತೆ (kn) (maḷeyaḷate)
• Latvian: nokrišņu daudzums
• Lithuanian: kritulių kiekis
• Macedonian: вр́неж m (vŕnež)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nedbør (no) m

• Portuguese: precipitação (pt)
• Russian: коли́чество оса́дков n (kolíčestvo osádkov), дождь (ru) m (doždʹ), оса́дки (ru) m pl (osádki), ли́вень (ru) m (lívenʹ) (heavy rainfall)
• Scottish Gaelic: uisge-adhair
• Spanish: precipitación (es) f
• Swedish: nederbörd (sv) c, regn (sv) n
• Telugu: వర్షపాతము (varṣapātamu)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: ཆར་བབས (char babs)
• Vietnamese: lượng mưa
• Welsh: glawiad m

meteorology: occasion of raining

• Finnish: sade (fi), vesisade (fi)
• Greek: βροχόπτωση (el) f (vrochóptosi)

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