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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.



Fuze  n.  A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.
Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion.
Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile.
Electric fuze, a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current.
Friction fuze, a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction. See fuzee (1).
Percussion fuze, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound.
Time fuze, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.






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"Fuze" Quotes from Famous Books



... ear-mark of a roving, careless, selfish population, which thinks only of mill-privileges, and never of pleasant meadows,—which has built the ugliest dwellings and the biggest hotels of any nation, save the Calmucks, over whom reigns the Czar. Upon the American soil seem destined to meet and fuse the two great elements of European civilization,—the Latin and the Saxon,—and of these two is our nation blent. But just at present it exhibits the love of glare and finery of the one, without its true and tender taste,—and the sturdy, practical ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various

... no doubt of it," replied the captain. "The length of their stay in the submarine will depend on the length of the fuse attached to the time ...
— The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet • Kenneth Ward

... the granite walls of the cavern. Aramis led Porthos into the last but one compartment, and showed him, in a hollow of the rocky wall, a barrel of powder weighing from seventy to eighty pounds, to which he had just attached a fuse. "My friend," said he to Porthos, "you will take this barrel, the match of which I am going to set fire to, and throw it amidst our enemies; can you ...
— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... at times one's impressions will all fuse and run together into a sort of unity and become continuous with things that have hitherto been utterly alien and remote. That rush down the river became mysteriously ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... anew, shut off from all the rest of the world, to [104] which it presented but one narrow entrance pierced through that rock of Tempe, so narrow that "in the opinion of the ancients it might be defended by a dozen men against all comers," it did recompose or fuse those many diverse elements into one absolutely original type. But what variety within! Its very claim was in its grace of movement, its freedom and easy happiness, its lively interests, the variety ...
— Plato and Platonism • Walter Horatio Pater


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