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See also:RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and See also:Dan. regn; it has been connected with See also:Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav) , the See also:water vapour of the See also:atmosphere when condensed into drops large enough to be precipitated upon the See also:earth . Hence the See also:term is extended to signify the fall of such drops in a shower, and in the plural, " the rains," it signifies the See also:rainy seasons in See also:India and elsewhere where under normal See also:climatic conditions such seasons are clearly distinguished from the dry . A See also:rain-See also:band is " a dark band in the See also:solar spectrum, caused by the presence of water-vapour in the atmosphere " (New Engl . See also:Diet.) ; a rain-See also:gauge is an See also:instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall (see See also:METEOROLOGY, where the whole subject of precipitation is fully treated) . |
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