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noun

Fusion n.

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.

The union or blending together of things, as, melted together. "The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs... had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds."

Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

(Biol.) The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

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Etymology of 'Fusion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fusion" Quotes from Famous Books

... hoped proudly of human nature, and admitted no distinction between Christians and Frenchmen, regarded the first constitution as a colossal statue of Corinthian brass, formed by the fusion and commixture of all metals in the conflagration of the state. But there is a common fungus, which so exactly represents the pole and cap of liberty, that it seems offered by nature herself as the appropriate emblem of Gallic republicanism,—mushroom ...

— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

... at the fusion point of enthusiasm, the cars stopped at Lockerbie. All was dim and dark outside, but we soon became conscious that there was quite a number of people collected, peering into the window; and with a strange kind of thrill, I heard my name inquired for in the Scottish ...

— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... the fluid, and may swim in this state for hours. Meanwhile, the diffluence causes a spreading and flattening of the sarcode and swimming gives place to creeping, while the flagella violently lash. In this condition two forms meet by apparent accident, the protrusions touch, and instant fusion supervenes. In the course of a few seconds there is no disconnected sarcode visible, and in five to seven minutes the organism is a union of two of the organisms, the swimming being again resumed, the flagella acting in apparent concert. This may continue for ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XIX, No. 470, Jan. 3, 1885 • Various

... it reveals to us the presence, in each individual soul, of a sort of "substratum of the soul" or something beyond analysis which is the "vanishing point of sensation" and the vortex-point or fusion-point where the movement which we call "matter" loses itself in the movement ...

— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys

... comparison with the trunk vertebrae seen farther posteriorly it appears that there may be a progressive ossification of neural arches toward their dorsal ends, and of intercentra around the notochord, with probable fusion of the intercentra and neural arches in the posterior part of the trunk. The notochord seems to have been slightly constricted by the ...

— A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas • Theodore H. Eaton

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