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rainfall meaning

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    Definition of rainfall in English Dictionary

  • NounPLrainfallsSUF-all
    1. (meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • The regional climate is humid mesothermal, with a hot summer and well distributed rainfall throughout the year (Cfa in Köppen-Geiser’s classification [32 ]).
        • Kalifabougou is in the savanna ecoclimatic zone where annual rainfall is 800–1,200 mm/year.
        • When there is very heavy rainfall on California hillsides over a prolonged period, there is almost always ensuing surface runoff.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Countable nouns
          • Singularia tantum
            • Uncountable nouns
        Related Links:
        1. en rainfalls
        2. en rainfallwise
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of rainfall for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "rainfall" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
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