back fire
Noun
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Noun
back fire (plural back fires)
- A small, controlled fire set in the path of a larger uncontrolled fire, in order to limit the spread of the large fire by removing its fuel.
- An explosion produced either by a running internal combustion engine that occurs in the air intake or exhaust system rather than inside the combustion chamber or unburned fuel or hydrocarbons ignited somewhere in the exhaust system.
- French: contre-feu
- Russian: встре́чный пал
- Spanish: contrafuego
- German: Fehlzündung
- Italian: back-fire
- Spanish: deflagración de escape
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