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freeburns

freeburns is the plural of freeburn.

Meaning of freeburn

Noun

freeburn (plural freeburns)

  1. 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

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Questions about freeburns

What is freeburns the plural of?
Freeburns is the plural of freeburn.

Words near freeburns in the dictionary

  1. Freeburg
  2. Freeburgh
  3. Freeburgs
  4. freeburn
  5. Freeburn Island
  6. freeburns
  7. Freebury
  8. Freeby
  9. freecam
  10. freecamed
  11. freecaming

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