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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rain dancenoun

    a ritual dance intended to bring rain

Wiktionary

  1. rain dancenoun

    A ceremonial dance intended to provoke rain.

  2. rain dancenoun

    Any sequence of arbitrary actions performed in order to achieve a goal.

Wikipedia

  1. rain dance

    Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain. Among the best known examples of weather modification rituals are North American rain dances, historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern United States. Some of these weather modification rituals are still implemented today.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. rain dance

    1. Any ceremonial action taken to correct a hardware problem, with the expectation that nothing will be accomplished. This especially applies to reseating printed circuit boards, reconnecting cables, etc. “I can't boot up the machine. We'll have to wait for Greg to do his rain dance.” 2. Any arcane sequence of actions performed with computers or software in order to achieve some goal; the term is usually restricted to rituals that include both an incantation or two and physical activity or motion. Compare magic, voodoo programming, black art, cargo cult programming, wave a dead chicken; see also casting the runes.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of rain dance in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of rain dance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of rain dance in a Sentence

  1. Mike Sommers:

    There is an old saying that the success of a rain dance depends on the timing.


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