backfiring

English

Verb

backfiring

  1. present participle and gerund of backfire

Noun

backfiring (countable and uncountable, plural backfirings)

  1. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
  2. The occurrence of a backfire.
    • 1962 July, “Failures of multiple-unit electric trains on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
      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, although occasional backfires do still occur.
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