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noun

Fuse n. (Gunnery, Mining, etc.)

A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; called also fuzee. See Fuze.

Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse.

(Mil.) A mechanism in a bomb, torpedo, rocket, or artillery shell, usually having an easily detonated explosive charge and activated by the shock of impact, which detonates the main explosive charge. Some fuses may have timing mechanisms, delaying the explosion for a short time, or up to several days after impact. Fuses activated by other mechanisms more sophisticated than impact, such as proximity or heat, are used in modern weapons such as antiaircraft or antimissile missiles.

Fuze, Fuse n. (Elec.) A wire, bar, or strip of fusible metal inserted for safety in an electric circuit. When the current increases beyond a certain safe strength, the metal melts, interrupting the circuit and thereby preventing possibility of damage. It serves the same function as a circuit breaker.

verb

Fuse v. t. (past & past part. fused; pres. part. fusing)

To liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve; to melt.

To unite or blend, as if melted together. "Whose fancy fuses old and new."

Fuse v. i.

To be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.

To be blended, as if melted together.

Fusing point, the degree of temperature at which a substance melts; the point of fusion; the melting point.

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Etymology of 'Fuse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fuse" Quotes from Famous Books

... in human attainment is due only slightly to the original material. It is the ideal followed and unfolded, the effort made, the processes of education and experience undergone that fuse, hammer, and mold our ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

... another. Ill at ease, Gard felt himself waiting—for what? It was the strain of anxiety, such as a miner feels deep in the heart of the earth, knowing that far down the black corridor the dynamite has been placed and the fuse laid. Why was the expected explosion delayed? One must not go forward to learn. One must sit still and wait. A thousand times he asked himself the meaning of this latent dread. He set it down to his suspicions of Mrs. Marteen's departure. Then why this ...

— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford

... Then, making an effort, Sutton turned his eyes to see the sick woman. He met her eyes direct, dark, dilated. It was such a shock he almost started away. For a second he remained in torture, as if some invisible flame were playing on him to reduce his bones and fuse him down. Then he saw the sharp white edge of her jaw, and the black hair beside the hollow cheek. With a start ...

— England, My England • D.H. Lawrence

... of hand-grenade by putting three or four pounds of powder into a "rind of a tree" (piece of bark) with "a fusey [fuse] to have time to throw the rind." This he flung into the fort, having directed his Indians to follow up the explosion by breaking in with hatchet and sword. Meanwhile the Iroquois were singing their death-song. The grenade fell among them and burst with terrible execution. Immediately ...

— French Pathfinders in North America • William Henry Johnson

... shock was the loss of the sense of self; his battle to retain this sense. He seemed to fuse in the heat, the vast solution draining his vitality. He could have given himself to the white fire of a group of men like Spenski, Abel, Fallows, Poltneck, perhaps—but to give himself to this.... They were stretching ...

— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort

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