firewalls
- 1Plural of firewall.
Network administrators configure firewalls to block unauthorized traffic between systems.
Modern apartment buildings include firewalls designed to contain a blaze within a single unit.
Note
The same spelling does double duty. As a noun plural it covers fireproof barriers in buildings and vehicles as well as software that screens network traffic. As a verb it is the present-tense form after he, she or it: the team firewalls every new server. In slang, someone who firewalls is using maximum engine power or acceleration, with no object at all.
firewalls is a form of firewall
firewall, noun: Software that monitors traffic entering and leaving a private network or personal computer, allowing or blocking it based on its perceived threat. Full entry
- Forms
- firewallfirewalls plural
- Spelling
- firewall → firewalls: add -s
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