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multi-alarm

multi-alarm is the alternative spelling of multialarm.

Meaning of multialarm

Adjective

multialarm (not comparable)

  1. (US) Requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.
    • Fires which have heretofore been one‐alarm skirmishes are now multialarm small wars.1977 February 14, Joseph E. Galvin, “Under Fire”, in The New York Times

Questions about multi-alarm

What is multi-alarm the alternative spelling of?
Multi-alarm is the alternative spelling of multialarm.

Words near multi-alarm in the dictionary

  1. multi-addiction
  2. multi-addictions
  3. multi-administration
  4. multi-agent system
  5. multi-agent systems
  6. multi-alarm
  7. multi-aperture
  8. multi-apping
  9. multi-armed
  10. multi-armed bandit
  11. multi-armed bandits

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