Definition of Rainband

1. a dark band in the solar spectrum [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainband

rain hat
rain hats
rain man
rain men
rain off
rain on one's parade
rain on someone's parade
rain or shine
rain out
rain pitchforks
rain shadow
rain shower
rain stick
rain tree
rain trees
rainband (current term)
rainbands
rainbird
rainbirds
rainboot
rainboots
rainbow
rainbow-colored
rainbow bridge
rainbow cactus
rainbow coalition
rainbow fish
rainbow lorikeet
rainbow parties

Literary usage of Rainband

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Symons's Meteorological Magazine (1885)
"scale for rainband is, as before, 0-1 to 5 ; that for ozone 1 to 10 of ... An examination of this will show that generally the curves of rainband and ozone ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The filed solar lines E, b, and F have been used as a closer approximation to a scalo in instrumente not powerful enough to separate the rainband from the D ..."

3. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1883)
"Mr. Cory then gave a number of instances during the present year in which the appearance of the rainband had furnished a forecast of rain. Thus Jan. ..."

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