Usually means: Sudden, widespread ignition of fire.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. flashover: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  14. flashover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. flashover: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flashover: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (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.

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