firewire

English

A 6-pin FireWire plug.

Etymology

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)

A high-speed digital link standard covered by the IEEE 1394-1995 standard.
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 (zh), 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

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