FireWire Definition

noun

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

Wiktionary

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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FireWire Sentence Examples

  • You can also output video to 1394 FireWire devices for high quality viewing with lower CPU and disk usage.

  • Since the machine was released USB, FireWire and gigabit Ethernet (among others) have been released.

  • It runs the same OS but has a lot of fast graphics hardware built in and different, newer ports like USB and FireWire.

  • The VSC 5000 is equipped with a high-resolution firewire color video imaging system and is operated with a PC through Windows 2000.

  • No, it cannot be used with a laptop, as it contains a PCI Firewire card, for use in desktop machines only.

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