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Fuse   /fjuz/   Listen
noun
Fuse  n.  (Gunnery, Mining, etc.)
1.
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.
2.
(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)  
1.
To liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve; to melt.
2.
To unite or blend, as if melted together. "Whose fancy fuses old and new."


Fuse  v. i.  
1.
To be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
2.
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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Fuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... at him with saucy eyes, in which burned two little flames of displeasure, that seemed to shoot up from the red spots glowing upon her cheeks. Lenorme looked at her. He had often seen her like this before, and knew that the shell was charged and the fuse lighted. But within lay a mixture even more explosive than he suspected; for not merely was there more of shame and fear and perplexity mingled with her love than he understood, but she was conscious of having now been false to him, and ...
— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald
... he seized the end of a fuse projecting from one of the canisters and held the crimson end of his cigar against it until a sputter of sparks showed that it had caught. From this fuse he turned to the one in the second can ...
— In the Shadow of the Hills • George C. Shedd
... of Canvey Island," I said. "There's no one to wake up there except the sea-gulls, and we can be out of sight round the corner before it explodes. I've got about twenty feet of fuse, which will give us at least a quarter of an ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... engaged upon his diabolical work by the aid of a carefully-shaded lantern. Another few seconds and Frobisher would have been too late, and the ship would have been blown into the air with all her crew; for the Prince was even then applying a light to the end of the fuse which he had already cut, the other extremity of which ...
— A Chinese Command - A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas • Harry Collingwood
... is used to clean the surfaces of joints and seams to be soldered, also to keep them from oxidizing and to help the metals to fuse. ...
— Elements of Plumbing • Samuel Dibble


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