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fire triangle

noun

Etymology

From fire + triangle.

  1. derived from triangulum
  2. derived from triangle
  3. inherited from triangle
  4. compounded as fire triangle — “fire + triangle”

Definitions

  1. The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire

    The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy).

  2. The diagram representing these three elements of a fire.

  3. A fire and its three components.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fire triangle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA