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flamelet

/ˈfleɪmlət/

flamelet noun: a small flame.

Noun

flamelet (plural flamelets)

  1. A small flame.
    • And every separate window-pane, / Backed by the outer darkness, showed / A mirror, where the flamelets gleamed / And flickered to and fro, and seemed / A bonfire lighted in the road.1873 August, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[I. Tales of a Wayside Inn.] Prelude.”, in Aftermath, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co....
    • For weak turbulence the local structure of these flamelets approaches that of unperturbed steady laminar flames.2013, R. Borghi, S.N.B. Murthy, Turbulent Reactive Flows

Forms of flamelet

pluralflamelets

Origin of flamelet

From flame + -let.

Questions about flamelet

What does flamelet mean?
Flamelet means a small flame.
What part of speech is flamelet?
Flamelet is a noun.
How do you pronounce flamelet?
Flamelet is pronounced /ˈfleɪmlət/.
What is the plural of flamelet?
The plural of flamelet is flamelets.

Words near flamelet in the dictionary

  1. flamekeepers
  2. Flamel
  3. flameless
  4. flamelessly
  5. flamelessness
  6. flamelet
  7. flamelets
  8. flamelight
  9. flamelike
  10. flamelord
  11. flamelords

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