backfiring
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
backfiring
- present participle and gerund of backfire
Noun[edit]
backfiring (countable and uncountable, plural backfirings)
- A failure that leads to further misfortune.
- 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.