English
Etymology
From rain + fall.
Pronunciation
Noun
rainfall (countable and uncountable, plural rainfalls)
- (meteorology) The amount of rain that falls on a single occasion
- The occurrence of liquid precipitation, the fall of rain.
Derived terms
- effective rainfall
- excessive rainfall
- excess 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
- Polish: opady deszczu nvir pl
- 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
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meteorology: occasion of raining
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