fire retardant
fire retardant noun: any of several substances used to delay or prevent combustion when used as a coating or component of a combustible material.
Noun
fire retardant (plural fire retardants)
- Any of several substances used to delay or prevent combustion when used as a coating or component of a combustible material.
- More than 100 provincial and municipal firefighters were brought in, with helicopters and aircraft used to drop water and fire retardant, while bulldozers were digging firebreaks.2016 May 4, Nicky Woolf, “Fort McMurray: Canada wildfires force evacuation of oil sands city”, in The Guardian
fire retardant meaning in Tamil, Malay and Indonesian
fire retardant in Tamil
- தீச்சுணக்கி, தீத் தடுப்பான்
fire retardant in Malay
- Translations
- pelambat kebakaran, perintang api
fire retardant in Indonesian
- Translations
- penghambat api
Forms of fire retardant
| plural | fire retardants |
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Questions about fire retardant
- What does fire retardant mean?
- Fire retardant means any of several substances used to delay or prevent combustion when used as a coating or component of a combustible material.
- What is fire retardant in Tamil?
- Fire retardant in Tamil is தீச்சுணக்கி, தீத் தடுப்பான். See Fire retardant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fire retardant?
- Fire retardant is a noun.
- What is the plural of fire retardant?
- The plural of fire retardant is fire retardants.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fire retardant (page history and authors); fire retardant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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