fire wall

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fire′ wall`

or fire′wall`,


n.
1. a partition built to prevent the spread of a fire from one part of a building, ship, etc., to another.
2. an integrated collection of security measures designed to prevent unauthorized electronic access to a networked computer system.
[1750–60]
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