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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