fire

Summary

fire ranks in the top 0.65% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,779 views/month, #504 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• fire is a type of physical phenomenon^[2].
• fire is a type of combustion^[3].
• fire is used for roasting^[4].
• fire is used for cooking^[5].
• fire's Commons category is recorded as Fire^[6].
• fire's Unicode character is recorded as 🔥^[7].
• fire comprises flame^[8].
• fire comprises smoke^[9].
• fire's has cause is recorded as combustion^[10].
• fire's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fire^[11].
• fire's Commons gallery is recorded as Fire^[12].
• fire's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia^[13].
• fire's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[14].
• fire's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng^[15].
• fire's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[16].
• fire's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[17].
• fire's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5^[18].
• fire's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[19].
• fire's topic has template is recorded as Template:Fire^[20].
• fire's immediate cause of is recorded as burned area^[21].
• fire's immediate cause of is recorded as heat^[22].
• fire's immediate cause of is recorded as ash^[23].
• fire's has effect is recorded as thermal energy^[24].
• fire's has characteristic is recorded as hot^[25].
• fire's different from is recorded as Q4331176^[26].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include physical phenomenon^[2] and combustion^[3].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include roasting^[4] and cooking^[5]. Components include flame^[8] and smoke^[9].

Influence

Things named for fire include Mars^[27], an inner planet of the Solar System^[28], founded in -4540000000^[29]; Pterois^[30], a taxon^[31]; pyrite^[32], a mineral species^[33]; Reign of Fire^[34], a film^[35], directed by Rob Bowman^[36]; fire extinguisher^[37]; Pyroraptor^[38], a fossil taxon^[39]; Agni^[40], a Hindu deity^[41]; and Atesh^[42], a guerrilla organization^[43], in Ukraine^[44], founded in 2022^[45].

Why It Matters

fire ranks in the top 0.65% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,779 views/month, #504 of 77,819).^[1] fire has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[46] fire is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[47]

Entities named for fire include Mars^[27], an inner planet of the Solar System^[28], founded in -4540000000^[29]; Pterois^[30], a taxon^[31]; pyrite^[32], a mineral species^[33]; Reign of Fire^[34], a film^[35], directed by Rob Bowman^[36]; fire extinguisher^[37]; and Pyroraptor^[38], a fossil taxon^[39].