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Definition of Rain gage
1. Noun. Gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rain Gage
Literary usage of Rain gage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and by John Pinkerton, Samuel Vince, Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"OJ» THE rain gage. 296. The Pain gage is an instrument to show the quantity ...
To use the rain gage, so much water must first be put into the cylinder as ..."
2. Hydrology: The Fundamental Basis of Hydraulic Engineering by Daniel Webster Mead (1919)
""The rain gage should, if possible, be located in an open space unobstructed by
trees, buildings or fences. Low bushes and fences, or walls that break the ..."
3. Journal of the New England Water Works Association by New England Water Works Association (1919)
"The effect of inclination of a rain gage depends on the direction in which it is
inclined relative to the direction of the rain-bearing wind. ..."
4. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1914)
"SETTING AND EXPOSURE OF GAGES The correct setting of an automatic rain gage is
also of great importance. The exposure should be such that no objects which ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1832)
"THE parts composing this Rain-Gage, are represented in the annexed diagram, on
a scale of ^-th of an inch to an inch ; viz. 1st, A square-mouthed filler, ..."
6. Water-supply Engineering: The Designing and Constructing of Water-supply Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1917)
"Rain-gage. For many purposes it is desirable to know the rate of fall for short
intervals of five minutes or less, and for ascertaining this self-recording ..."
7. Water-supply Engineering: The Designing and Constructing of Water-supply Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1917)
"Rain-gage. For many purposes it is desirable to know the rate of fall for short
intervals of five minutes or less, and for ascertaining this self-recording ..."
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