FireWire Definition

noun

A high speed digital link standard covered by the IEEE1394-1995 standard.

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A system of wires or tubes designed to detect fire and trigger automatic fire-extinguishers in an aircraft engine compartment for example.

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Other Word Forms of FireWire

Noun

Singular:
FireWire
Plural:
firewires

Origin of FireWire

  • fire +"Ž wire. In the first sense ("high speech digital link standard"), the term was originally a trade name"”capitalized FireWire"”used by Apple Inc. as it developed the standard in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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