Definitions for firewall

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firewall fire·wall

Spelling: [fahyuh r-wawl]

IPA: /ˈfaɪərˌwɔl/

Firewall is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in firewall (aefillrw).

Definitions for firewall

noun

1. a partition made of fireproof material to prevent the spread of a fire from one part of a building or ship to another or to isolate an engine compartment, as on a plane, automobile, etc.
2. a person, thing, or event that acts as a barrier or protection against something undesirable:
3. Digital Technology. an integrated collection of security measures designed to prevent unauthorized electronic access to a networked computer system.

Origin of firewall

An Americanism dating back to 1750-60

Examples for firewall

Minority rights matter a lot in a body which was supposed to be a firewall against the haste and folly of popular sentiment.

The temperature behind the firewall had risen to two-forty Centigrade.

"They're probably both stuck at the firewall," Willows said.

“We were very careful to build a firewall between that work and our work with independent journalists,” Bourgault said.

I think that the firewall between depression and psychosis is going to be erased.

You try to get an experimental service running and no one will reconfigure the firewall.

Apparently the foul-up is on the other side of the firewall.

He is my president, though, and he's the firewall we have against the lunatics taking over.

There is a huge overlap, and this firewall is very much an artifact.

He went into the antechamber of the reactor and glared at the door in the firewall.