Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English의 정의관련 주제: Nature, Meteorology, Geographyrainfallrain‧fall /ˈreɪnfɔːl $ -fɒːl/ noun [countable, uncountable]DNHEMthe amount of rain that falls on an area in a particular period of time
We’ve had a long period of low rainfall.
The city has received only half its average rainfall of four inches.말뭉치의 용례rainfall• For a number of years after 1865, a long humidcycle brought uninterrupted above-average rainfall to the plains.• The teens and 1920s, in particular, were years of extraordinary and consistentrainfall.• In fact, many of the occasionaldesertrainfalls are very light and incapable of any seriouserosion.• Although the increase in rainfall would aid irrigation, it would add to the problems of soil erosion and nutrientleaching.• Except in regions of very lowrainfallApril should be regarded as the safest month for sowing herbage seeds.• Below-normal rainfall has led to a major water shortage.• From remoterural areas came evidence of continuing decline because of increased acidity of rainfall.• We drove through pastures big enough to have their own rainfallpattern.• Most other areas in the countyreportedrainfall of a quarter-inch to a half-inch.
