rain gage
- noun
- /reɪn ɡeɪdʒ/
- Specialized
:
pluviómetro
- Fig. 1: Location of the study area and rain gauges within Xilingol grassland. See PDF for image.
- rain gage station
Examples
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He checked the rain gauge this morning to see the amount of rainfall.
Academic text (2008) -
The SQMK test graphs for each rain gauge station during the pasture growing season are presented in Fig. 4.
Academic text (2018) -
In contrast, the ELHT and the XH rain gauge stations exhibit opposite trends (as bold in Table 4).
Academic text (2018) -
As Brad Lyon has noted, coverage of rain gauges over parts of the world, like the Democratic Republic of Congo, declined dramatically throughout the latter half of the 20th century.
Blog text (26) -
He checked the rain gauge this morning to see the amount of rainfall.
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After the storm, she measured the rainfall with the rain gauge in her backyard.
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The weather report showed that we received over three inches of rain, as indicated by the rain gauge.
Synonyms
A device that measures how much rain falls
A tool that measures how much rain falls
A tool that measures how much rain falls
A device with a float that rests on collected rain to measure how much falls
A tool that measures rain using a float on the top of the collected water
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an instrument for measuring rainfall' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'rain' (water droplets that fall from the sky) with 'gage' (a measuring instrument). This noun + noun composition (X gage) straightforwardly denotes an instrument that measures X and is a common, compositional pattern learners can infer from the constituents.
Etymology
Rain gage comes from a simple, literal image: a container left outside to catch rain so you can see how much fell. The word gage is an old spelling of 'gauge', which means 'to measure', so a rain gage is a tool for measuring how much rain fell.
