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backfirings

backfirings is the plural of backfiring.

Meaning of backfiring

Noun

backfiring (countable and uncountable, plural backfirings)

  1. The occurrence of a backfire.
    • Backfiring in mercury arc rectifiers has now been pinpointed as the primary cause of the Glasgow transformer failures. […] The chief causes of rectifier backfiring in the Glasgow units were overheating or unfavourable anode/cathode temperature differential; it has proved possible to overcome these...1962 July, “Failures of multiple-unit electric trains on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 53
  2. (figuratively) A failure that leads to further misfortune.

Questions about backfirings

What is backfirings the plural of?
Backfirings is the plural of backfiring.

Words near backfirings in the dictionary

  1. backfired
  2. backfirer
  3. backfirers
  4. backfires
  5. backfiring
  6. backfirings
  7. backfisch
  8. backfische
  9. backfisches
  10. backfist
  11. backfists

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