Firing

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Firing may refer to:

  • Termination of employment
  • Firemaking, the act of starting a fire
  • Burning; see combustion
  • Shooting, specifically the discharge of firearms
  • Execution by firing squad, a method of capital punishment
  • Pottery firing in a kiln or oven
  • Pin firing, an old medical treatment applied to horses
  • An action potential, where the depolarization of a neuron causes it to "fire" off an electrical signal down its axon
  • Any material (such as firewood) that can be burned as fuel to release energy

See also

  • Fire and Fire (disambiguation)
  • Fired (disambiguation)
  • Firing squad (disambiguation)
  • Fire-raising (disambiguation)
  • Fire making
  • Firestarter (disambiguation)
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