Usually means: Barriers protecting networks from threats.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word firewalls:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. firewalls: Merriam-Webster
  2. firewalls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. firewalls: Vocabulary.com
  4. Firewalls, firewall's, firewalls: Wordnik
  5. firewalls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. firewalls: Wiktionary
  7. firewalls: Dictionary.com
  8. Firewalls: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. firewalls: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. firewalls: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. firewalls: CCI Computer
  2. firewalls: Encyclopedia

(Note: See firewall as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (firewall)

noun:  (architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
noun:  (computer security) 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.
noun:  (physics) A hypothetical phenomenon where an observer falling into a black hole encounters high-energy quanta at or near the event horizon.
verb:  (transitive, computer security) To protect with a firewall.
verb:  (transitive, computer security) To block with a firewall.
verb:  (intransitive, motor vehicles or aircraft, slang) To use maximum engine power or acceleration.
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