freeburn
freeburn noun: an unconstrained fire.
Noun
freeburn (plural freeburns)
- An unconstrained fire.
- Underwriters Laboratories Inc. 2 showed that rate-of-rise or rate-anticipating thermal detectors spaced as little as two feet or six feet directly above a 2½-square-foot alcohol fire, after a freeburn of 30 seconds, either did not detect at all within 30 seconds or, did so between 28 and 30 seconds.1975, Fire Journal - Volume 69, page 55
- These time intervals, commencing with the completion of the incipient time period, were then referenced on a freeburn fire growth curve generated by Lee for this type fuel array, and the associated convective heat release rate determined.1989, Takao Wakamatsu, Fire safety science: proceedings of the second international symposium
Proper noun capitalized: Freeburn
Freeburn (plural Freeburns)
- A surname.
Examples of freeburn in a sentence
- Freeburns of each fire scenario and the individual component fires were also evaluated.1998, Ned R. Keltner, Norman J. Alvares, S. J. Grayson, Very Large-scale Fires, →ISBN, page 158:
- In general, the scatters for all the above measurements were within those observed in freeburn crib fires.2008, Paul A. Croce, Yibing Xin, “Scale Modeling of Quasi-Steady Wood Crib Fires in Enclosures”, in Progress in Scale Modeling, →ISBN, page...
Forms of freeburn
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| plural | freeburns |
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| plural | Freeburns |
Origin of freeburn
From free + burn.
Variant of Freeborn.
Words formed from freeburn
Questions about freeburn
- What does freeburn mean?
- Freeburn means an unconstrained fire.
- How do you use freeburn in a sentence?
- Freeburns of each fire scenario and the individual component fires were also evaluated.
- What part of speech is freeburn?
- Freeburn can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of freeburn?
- The plural of freeburn is freeburns.
Words near freeburn in the dictionary
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