firewire

火线

词形变化

firewires 复数 firewires

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A high-speed digital link standard covered by the IEEE 1394-1995 standard.

    火线

  2. 2.

    A system of wires or tubes designed to detect fire and trigger automatic fire-extinguishers in an aircraft engine compartment for example.

词源

From fire + wire. In the first sense ("high-speed 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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