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Flooding vs Rainfall - What's the difference?

flooding | rainfall |

As nouns the difference between flooding and rainfall

is that flooding is an act of flooding; a flood or gush while rainfall is (meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion.

As a verb flooding

is .

flooding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of flooding; a flood or gush.
  • * (Mark Twain)
    • And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!

    rainfall

    English

    Noun

  • (meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion

    • Derived terms

    * effective rainfall * excess rainfall * excessive rainfall * initial rainfall * inversion of rainfall * orographic rainfall * point rainfall * rainfall component * rainfall distribution * rainfall duration * rainfall effectiveness * rainfall excess * rainfall frequency * rainfall intensity * rainfall intensity area curve * rainfall intensity-duration curve * rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curve * rainfall intensity frequency * rainfall intensity pattern * rainfall intensity return period * rainfall inversion * rainfall loss * rainfall rate * rainfall regime * rainfall station * rate-of-rainfall gauge * residual rainfall *