fire science

Noun

fire science (uncountable)

1. The scientific discipline which studies fire.
   • Four years ago, David Bowman, a professor of pyrogeography and fire science at the University of Tasmania, wrote in an article that went viral that Australians should reconsider the summer holiday — maybe rearranging the calendar to reschedule the peak holiday period to March or April instead of...2023 October 27, Yan Zhuang, “How Are You Preparing for a Summer of Fires?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2023