英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /suːpəɹˈkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/

名詞

superconflagration (複数形 superconflagrations)

1. (rare) A very severe, blazing conflagration.
   • 1917, Perley Poore Sheehan, Those who walk in darkness‎^[1], New York G.H. Doran Co, →ISBN, page 205:

     Over there, in the direction of Bainbridge, the sunset glowed like a superconflagration.

   • 1953, Shelby Cullom Davis, Insurance Companies and the Interest Rate, Taylor & Francis:

     Governments and common stocks is embodied in the philosophy that, with large common stock commitments, all the risk of the portfolio should be concentrated in this category while the rest of the portfolio should be riskless - a kind of superconflagration reserve.

   • 1983, Marie Louise Burke, Swami Vivekananda in the West: The world teacher‎^[2], Advaita Ashrama, page 122:

     In the mid-nineties was, physically, barely quarter-century old, almost all of it having been burned to the ground in October in 1871 in a superconflagration.

   • 2015, Disaster Digest (Hollywood Fantasy Not California Reality)‎^[3], page 6:

     Fires following these earthquakes would be a much bigger and broader issue than shown in the movie. In the much smaller M7.8 “ShakeOut Scenario” earthquake scenario for southern California, more than 1600 fires are projected to start, some becoming superconflagrations.