noun, verb — 16 senses
/fjuːz/
Etymology From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
Cellular automata, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end.
Business, Government, Manufacturing, Military, Mining, Politics, War Alternative, Proscribed, Sometimes Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device.
Figuratively A tendency to lose one's temper.
› A kind of match for starting a fire:
A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
Etymology From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.
Business, Government, Manufacturing, Military, Mining, Politics, War Alternative, Proscribed, Sometimes Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.
Etymology Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.
Business, Electrical, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
Etymology Back-formation from fusion (“to melt”), first to verbal sense, then noun.
To liquify by heat; melt.
To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
To melt together.
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of a circuit To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
Chemistry, Natural sciences, Organic chemistry, Physical sciences To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings.
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