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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fuse" Quotes from Famous Books

... each sentence a solid work in a Torres-Vedras line of fortifications,—this prodigious constructive faculty, wielded with the strength of a huge Samson-like artificer in the material of mind, and welding together the substances it might not be able to fuse, puzzled all opponents who understood it not, and baffled the efforts of all who understood it well. He rarely took a position on any political question, which did not draw down upon him a whole battalion of adversaries, with ingenious array of argument and infinite noise of declamation; but ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 7, May, 1858 • Various

... by the hundreds. Names tied to men and events that carved history—old Saint Mary's where Calvert's Catholics came, Stratford of the Lees, Wakefield and Mount Vernon of the Washingtons, Braddock Heights, the Shenandoah, Harpers Ferry where John Brown lit a fuse, Manassas and Antietam and Gettysburg, and a multitude ...

— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... that the order of time establishes such concatenation, although it forms the basis of historical narrative. Each portion of time must be individual and distinct, and essentially consists in its subdivisions: indeed, if we were to fuse together hours, days and years, our existence would only amount to a tedious dream. The letters of the alphabet are insulated symbols, and have no natural connexion with each other, but may be arranged to constitute words, ...

— On the Nature of Thought - or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence • John Haslam

... comfort in trouble, casting about for something to tell him. She had made up her mind as she came along; she would have her revenge there and then, and chance it. Something kept her from laying the candle-flame to the time-fuse. She did not know what it was yet. But, oh! the sharp look of terror in the thin, eager face pierced her through ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... 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 out now as skirmishers, the crush ended. Entire figures of ...

— Red Fleece • Will Levington Comfort

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