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Rainfall: quantity of water that falls to the ground during a given period.

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Instrument that measures rainfall using small calibrated containers that tip when filled with water, producing an electrical impulse.

Device connected to the collecting vessel; it records electrical impulses, whose total indicates the amount of water that fell.