Definition of "firing" []

• The process of applying fire or heat, as in the hardening or glazing of ceramics. (noun)
• Fuel for fires. (noun)
• The act or an instance of dismissing someone from a job. (noun)

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• "If this period between the time of firing and the maximum temperature reported was exactly one minute, the radiation through this period would equal the radiation per one-half minute _before firing_ plus the radiation per one-half minute _after the maximum temperature is reached_; or, the radiation through the one minute interval would be the average of the radiation per minute before firing and the radiation per minute after the maximum."
• "The Walpin firing is hard to figure out: there are a lot of conflicting stories, including many people who say he was doing a bad job and was impossible to deal with; he also has his defenders."
• "The North has declared what it calls a firing zone in disputed waters off its west coast."