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Definition: Rain Gauge |
Rain GaugeNoun1. Gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | An instrument for measuring the quantity of rain that falls at a given place and time ; device used to measure precipitation, e. g. melted snow, sleet or hail, as well as rain; it consists of a receiving funnel, a collecting vessel and a measuring cylinder. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Rain Gauge An instrument or contrivance for measuring the amount of rain which falls on a given surface. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Science | Calibrated container that measures the amount of rainfall during a specific period of time. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A rain gauge is a type of instrument used by meteorologists to gather and measure the amount of falling precipitation, rain.Most rain gauges measure the precipitation in inches or centimeters.
Types of rain gauges include graduated cylinders, weighing gauges, tipping bucket gauge, and simple burried pit collectors. Each type has it advantages and disadvantages for collecting rain data.
Rain gauges have their limitations. Attempting to collect rain data in a hurricane can be nearly impossible and unreliable (even if the equipment survives) due to wind extremes. Also, rain gauges only indicate rainfall in a localized area.
See also: disdrometer
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rain gauge."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Measurement | Bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer, interferometer, odometer, ombrometer, pantometer, pluviometer, pneumatometer, pneumometer, radiometer, refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer, telemeter, udometer, vacuometer, variometer, viameter, thermometer, thermistor (heat), barometer (air), anemometer (wind), dynamometer, goniometer (angle) meter; landmark; (limit); balance, scale; (weight); marigraph, pneumatograph, stethograph; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts), ammeter(amps); spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer (liquid density); graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch, chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color intensity). |
River | Hydrodynamics; hydraulics, hydraulicostatics; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rain Gauge |
| English words defined with "rain gauge": Ombrometer ♦ Pluviometer ♦ Udometer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rain gauge": accumulative rain gauge ♦ pluviograph ♦ rain recorder, rain recording gauge, rainfall recorder ♦ self-registering gauge, storage rain gauge ♦ totalizer rain gauge. (references) |
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Consumer Goods | |
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 | A solar-powered Surface Automated Measurement (SAM) site. These are deployed to take measurements in and around severe weather. Tower instruments give wind direction and speed; rain gauge on left. White box houses temperature, relative humidity and pressure instruments. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |  | Surrounded by protective fencing that shields the rain gauge from wind currents, hydrologic technician Michael Murphy retrieves precipitation data for a site on the 16,000-acre Central Plains Experimental Range. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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Expressions using "rain gauge": accumulative rain gauge ♦ storage rain gauge ♦ totalizer rain gauge. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rain gauge | 1,286 |
wireless rain gauge | 39 |
electronic rain gauge | 15 |
rain gauge plastic | 10 |
digital rain gauge | 9 |
garden rain gauge | 5 |
oregon scientific rain gauge | 4 |
tipping bucket rain gauge | 4 |
decorative rain gauge | 4 |
torrent rain gauge | 4 |
weather rain gauge | 3 |
promotional rain gauge | 2 |
springfield rain gauge | 2 |
weather instrument rain gauge | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rain gauge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shimatës (pluviometer, udometer). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقياس المطر (udometer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дъждомер (pluviometer, udometer). (various references) | |
Danish | regnmåler (hyetometer, ombrometer, pluviometer, pluviometre, precipitation gage, precipitation gauge, rain gage, snow gage), nedboersmaaler (hyetometer, ombrometer, pluviometer, pluviometre, precipitation gage, precipitation gauge, rain gage, snow gage). (various references) | |
Dutch | regenmeter (hyetometer, ombrometer, pluviometer, pluviometre, precipitation gage, precipitation gauge, rain gage, snow gage), pluviometer (hyetometer, ombrometer, pluviometer, pluviometre, precipitation gage, precipitation gauge, rain gage, snow gage). (various references) | |
Finnish | sademittari (rain-gauge), pluviometri (hyetometer, ombrometer, pluviometer, pluviometre, precipitation gage, precipitation gauge, rain gage, snow gage). (various references) | |
French | pluviomètre (rain gage). (various references) | |
German | Regenmesser (pluviometer, pluviometers), Pluviometer (pluviometer), Niederschlagsmesser (pluviometer). (various references) | |
Greek | αθροιστικόν βροχόμετρον (accumulative rain gauge, storage rain gauge, totalizer, totalizer rain gauge). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ" 'שם (udometer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | esõmérõ (ombrometer, pluviometer, udometer), csapadékmérõ (udometer). (various references) | |
Italian | pluviometro (hyetometer, ombrometer, pluviometer, pluviometre, precipitation gage, precipitation gauge, rain gage, snow gage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雨量計 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うりょうけい. (various references) | |
Manx | meddyr lighee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ainray augegay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pluviómetro (hyetometer, ombrometer, pluviometer, pluviometre, precipitation gage, precipitation gauge, rain gage, snow gage), hietómetro (hyetometer, ombrometer, pluviometer, pluviometre, precipitation gage, precipitation gauge, rain gage, snow gage). (various references) | |
Romanian | pluviometru (pluviometer). (various references) | |
Russian | дождемер (ombrometer, pluviometer, rain-gauge, udometer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | merenje količine padavina. (various references) | |
Spanish | pluviómetro (ombrometer, pluviometer). (various references) | |
Swedish | regnmätare (pluviometer, rain-gauge). (various references) | |
Turkish | yağışölçer (pluviometer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Rain Gauge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rain guage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-g-i-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: anergia, arguing, garigue, gearing, guarani, naggier. | |
-3 letters: ageing, anuria, earing, gaeing, gainer, ganger, gangue, garage, gauger, ginger, grange, grunge, guinea, iguana, nagger, raging, reagin, regain, regina, urania, urging. | |
-4 letters: again, agger, aggie, aging, agria, anear, anger, arena, argue, auger, aurae, aurei, eggar, gager, garni, gauge, genua, gigue, grain, grana, gurge, inure, naira, range. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-g-i-n-r-u" | |
+3 letters: guaranteeing, safeguarding. | |
+5 letters: megasporangium. | |
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