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# rainfall

«rainfall» in Mova's school dictionary: **the amount of rain that falls in a place in some time…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (rainfall, rainfalls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rainfall is the amount of rain that falls in a place in some time, like a day, a month or a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#m1)

2) A rainfall is a fall of rain, a shower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a measured amount of rain, usually in inches, millimeters or centimeters, often compared between days or months; total and average rainfall; bar charts of rainfall. In science and geography: rainfall decides if a place is a desert or a rainforest; it is measured with a rain gauge. In everyday life: weather reports.

### examples

- The rainfall in May was 4 inches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x1)
- June had 2 inches more rainfall than May. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x2)
- Find the total rainfall for the three months. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x3)
- The average daily rainfall was 5 millimeters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x4)
- Deserts get very little rainfall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x5)
- Rainforests have heavy rainfall almost every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x6)
- We drew a bar chart of the rainfall for each month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x7)
- A rain gauge measures rainfall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x8)
- The heavy rainfall flooded the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/#x9)

### note

An amount to add, compare or average. Trap: watch the units; centimeters and millimeters cannot be added without changing one (10 mm = 1 cm; 1 inch ≈ 25 mm). Average = total ÷ number of days or months. Mostly uncountable: «little rainfall».

### In the corpora

- [Rainfall is measured with a rain gauge in millimetres.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/67-clouds-rain-snow-hail/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rainfall» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rainfall/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.