Usually means: Sudden, widespread ignition of fire.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. flashover: Merriam-Webster
  2. flashover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flashover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flashover: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flashover: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flashover, flashover: Wordnik
  7. flashover: Wiktionary
  8. flashover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. flashover: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. flashover: Dictionary.com
  11. Flashover (disambiguation), Flashover (film), Flashover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. flashover: Rhymezone
  13. flashover: FreeDictionary.org
  14. flashover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. flashover: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flashover: Encyclopedia

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flashover)

▸ noun:  The near simultaneous ignition of all combustible material in an enclosed area.
▸ noun:  An unintended electric discharge or arc over or around an insulator.

Similar:
flashfire, sparkover, firebreak, flashing, autoignition, matchflare, flash burner, flameout, flash point, smoke explosion, more...

Opposite:
backdraft, smoldering, cooling, extinguishing

Types:
surface, internal, partial, full, spontaneous, natural, unnatural, more...

Phrases:
flashover voltage, more...

Adjectives:
external, wet, back, internal, dry, post, complete, actual, electrical, impending, possible

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Similar:
flashfire, sparkover, firebreak, flashing, autoignition, matchflare, flash burner, flameout, flash point, smoke explosion, more...

Opposite:
backdraft, smoldering, cooling, extinguishing

Types:
surface, internal, partial, full, spontaneous, natural, unnatural, more...

Phrases:
flashover voltage, more...

Adjectives:
external, wet, back, internal, dry, post, complete, actual, electrical, impending, possible



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