fuse

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.

   • The Government, having lit the fuse, is not going to be allowed to flee the explosion.
2. 2

   An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end,…

   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.

3. 3

   Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance…

   Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device.

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   1. 4

      A tendency to lose one's temper.

      • When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
   2. 5

      A kind of match for starting a fire

      A kind of match for starting a fire:

   3. 6

      To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.

   4. 7

      Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.

   5. 8

      A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical…

      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.

   6. 9

      To liquify by heat

      To liquify by heat; melt.

      • Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)
   7. 10

      To melt together

      To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.

      • That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
   8. 11

      To melt together.

   9. 12

      To combine through nuclear fusion.

   10. 13

       To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.

   11. 14

       To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.

       • When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.
   12. 15

       To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or…

       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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