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rainfall

 noun
     
Related topics: Nature, Meteorology, Geography
rain‧fall [uncountable and countable]
DNHEM the 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.
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