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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is
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common to Teutonic
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languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and
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Dan. regn; it has been connected with
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Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)
  , the
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water vapour of the atmosphere when condensed into drops large enough to be precipitated upon the earth . Hence the
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term is extended to signify the fall of such drops in a shower, and in the plural, " the rains," it signifies the rainy seasons in India and elsewhere where under normal
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climatic conditions such seasons are clearly distinguished from the dry . A rain-
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band is " a dark band in the solar spectrum, caused by the presence of water-vapour in the atmosphere " (New Engl .
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Diet.) ; a rain-gauge is an instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall (see METEOROLOGY, where the whole subject of precipitation is fully treated) .

End of Article: RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)
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