English-Spanish translations for firewall

• cortafuegos
  El gran cortafuegos de China es quizás el ejemplo más crudo de esa censura. The great firewall of China is perhaps the starkest example of such censorship.
  En 1918, la muerte fue el cortafuegos que acabó con el virus, que se quedó sin víctimas. In 1918, death was the firewall that put an end to it; the virus ran out of victims.
• firewall
• muro cortafuego

Definition of firewall

• A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle
• The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat
• To protect with a firewall
• To use maximum acceleration

Related words

• firewalking
• firewalker
• electronic firewall
• network firewall