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gigafires

gigafires is the plural of gigafire.

Meaning of gigafire

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

Questions about gigafires

What is gigafires the plural of?
Gigafires is the plural of gigafire.

Words near gigafires in the dictionary

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

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