"fire triangle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fire triangles [plural]
Etymology: fire + triangle Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fire|triangle}} fire + triangle Head templates: {{en-noun}} fire triangle (plural fire triangles)
  1. The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy). Categories (topical): Fire
    Sense id: en-fire_triangle-en-noun-GUOlOEop Disambiguation of Fire: 47 20 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 4 41
  2. The diagram representing these three elements of a fire.
    Sense id: en-fire_triangle-en-noun-h44PqNGB
  3. A fire and its three components.
    Sense id: en-fire_triangle-en-noun-Rya3dFEj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: combustion triangle Translations (Translations): palokolmio (Finnish), triangle du feu [masculine] (French), Verbrennungsdreieck [neuter] (German), Feuerdreieck [neuter] (German), triangolo del fuoco [masculine] (Italian), triunghi de foc [neuter] (Romanian), triángulo del fuego [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'Translations': 48 4 48

Inflected forms

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