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gigafire

gigafire noun: a wildfire which burns more than one million acres.

gigafire: a wildfire which burns more than one million acres
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Noun

gigafire (plural gigafires)

  1. (neologism) A wildfire which burns more than one million acres.
    • When we coined the term "megafire" for wildfires that exceed 100,000 acres, it was in the back of our mind that if a fire reached 1 million acres it would be called a "gigafire".[2018 October 26, Bill Gabbert, “Bushfire in Australia burns over 2 million acres, becoming a "gigafire"”, in Wildfire Today, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2022
    • In addition, due in part to human-caused warming and a drying climate, California recorded its first "gigafire" since modern records began in the early 1930s.2020 October 5, Andrew Freedman, “California sees first ever ’gigafire’ and passes 4 million acres burned”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Forms of gigafire

pluralgigafires

Origin of gigafire

From giga- + fire.

Questions about gigafire

What does gigafire mean?
Gigafire means a wildfire which burns more than one million acres.
What part of speech is gigafire?
Gigafire is a noun.
What is the plural of gigafire?
The plural of gigafire is gigafires.

Words near gigafire in the dictionary

  1. gigaelectron volts
  2. gigaelectronvolt
  3. gigaelectronvolts
  4. gigafactories
  5. gigafactory
  6. gigafire
  7. gigafires
  8. gigaflop
  9. gigaflops
  10. gigagauss
  11. gigagram

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