Rainfall vs Deluge - What's the difference?
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(meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion
A great flood or rain.
An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
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(Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
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To flood with water.
To overwhelm.
Rainfall is a related term of deluge.
As a noun rainfall
is (meteorology) the amount of rain that falls on a single occasion.As a proper noun deluge is
(bible) the biblical flood during the time of noah.rainfall
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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 *deluge
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Noun
(en noun)- The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
- The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
- A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
- The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
- In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.
Verb
- After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.