Usually means: Barrier designed to stop wildfires.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. firebreak: Merriam-Webster
  2. firebreak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. firebreak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. firebreak: Collins English Dictionary
  5. firebreak: Vocabulary.com
  6. firebreak: Wordnik
  7. firebreak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. firebreak: Wiktionary
  9. firebreak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. firebreak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. firebreak: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. firebreak: Dictionary.com
  13. Firebreak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. firebreak: Rhymezone
  15. firebreak: FreeDictionary.org
  16. firebreak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. firebreak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. firebreak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. firebreak: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  2. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  3. FIREBREAK: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY

(Note: See firebreaks as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An area cleared of all flammable material to prevent a fire from spreading across it.
noun:  (figurative) Any separating barrier.

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