cortafuegos

Meaning

1. (masculine) firebreak, fire line, firetrail (Australia) (An area cleared of all flammable material in the woods to prevent a fire from spreading across it)
2. (masculine) firewall (a fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle)
3. (also, figuratively, masculine) firewall
4. (form-of, masculine, plural) plural of cortafuego

cortafuego

alternative form of cortafuegos

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Concepts

firewall

firebreak

fireguard

fire break

electronic firewall

network firewall

Synonyms

firewall

muro cortafuego

Translations

pare-feu

brandgang

Firewall

firewall

جدار ناري

vuurmuur

coupe-feu

Brandmauer

جِدَار ناريّ

αλεξίπυρο διάφραγμα

τοίχος προστασίας

τείχος προστασίας

Brandschott

tallafoc

Hyphenated as

cor‧ta‧fue‧gos

Pronounced as (IPA)

/koɾtaˈfweɡos/

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of corta (“to cut”) + fuegos (“fires”).