capping the second extraordinary fire season

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GoodTaste

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What does "capping" mean? It doesn't seem to mean "putting a limit on" or "covering the top of". It seems to mean "featuring" - but dictionries don't list it.

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Wildfires blazed along the Arctic Circle this summer, incinerating tundra, blanketing Siberian cities in smoke and capping the second extraordinary fire season in a row. By the time the fire season waned at the end of last month, the blazes had emitted a record 244 megatonnes of carbon dioxide — that’s 35% more than last year, which also set records. One culprit, scientists say, could be peatlands that are burning as the top of the world melts.


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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02568-y
 

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It could, but not in this context. The cap is the end, the last step. They're speaking of a season that is in the past.
 
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