Meaning of Backfiring | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The occurrence of a backfire.
   countable, uncountable
2. A failure that leads to further misfortune.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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