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shower

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shower
1. a brief period of rain, hail, sleet, or snow
2. a large number of particles formed by the collision of a cosmic-ray particle with a particle in the atmosphere

shower [′shau̇ยทər]
(meteorology)
Precipitation from a convective cloud; characterized by the suddenness with which it starts and stops, by the rapid changes of intensity, and usually by rapid changes in the appearance of the sky.
(nuclear physics)


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You'll BOTH stay while this shower gets owered,' said Nancy, as she stirred the fire, and placed another chair beside it; 'what
At night there was a very light shower of rain: this was the first drop that had fallen since the heavy rain of September 11th and 12th, which detained me a prisoner at the Baths of Cauquenes.
A shower of snow fell upon them, and, finding the Olive full of foliage, it settled upon its branches and broke them down with its weight, at once despoiling it of its beauty and killing the tree.
 
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