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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Made by means of a pluviometer: as, pluviometric observations.

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  • The precipitation in the mountains that border the Red Sea is not known by pluviometric measurement, but the mass of debris brought down the ravines by the torrents proves that their volume must be large.

    Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical) 1874

  • The precipitation in the mountains that border the Red Sea is not known by pluviometric measurement, but the mass of debris brought down the ravines by the torrents proves that their volume must be large.

    The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

  • [Footnote: On the pluviometric effect of irrigation, see Lombardini, Sulle Inondazioni, etc., p. 72, 74; the same author,

    The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

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