fuse
Meanings
noun
- A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
- 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.
- Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device.
- 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.
verb
- To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.
- Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.
noun
- 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.
verb
- To liquify by heat; melt.
- To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
- To melt together.
- To combine through nuclear fusion.
- To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
- To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
- 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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Etymology
From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
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