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present participle and gerund of backfire examples
countable and uncountable, plural backfirings
A failure that leads to further misfortune. examples
The occurrence of a backfire. quotations 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.
1962 July, “Failures of multiple-unit electric trains on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 53