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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Firmware: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. firmware: Netlingo
  3. firmware: CCI Computer
  4. Firmware: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Technopedia (No longer online)
  7. firmware: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. firmware: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. firmware: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. firmware: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See firmwares as well.)

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noun:  (computing) Something in between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on.
noun:  Software intended for such embedded computer applications.

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