firewire

English

A 6-pin FireWire plug.

Etymology

From fire +‎ 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.

Noun

firewire (plural firewires)

1. A high-speed digital link standard covered by the IEEE 1394-1995 standard.
2. A system of wires or tubes designed to detect fire and trigger automatic fire-extinguishers in an aircraft engine compartment for example.

Translations

a high speed digital link standard, IEEE 1394-1995

• Arabic: فَايْرْوَايْر m (fayrwayr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 火線／火线 (zh) (huǒxiàn)

• French: FireWire (fr)
• German: FireWire
• Japanese: ファイアワイア (faiawaia)
• Russian: фа́йрвайр m (fájrvajr), файрва́йр m (fajrvájr)
• Spanish: FireWire

a system of wires or tubes designed to detect fire