fuse
/fjuːz/ · noun
Meaning
- A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
- An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end.
- Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device.
- A tendency to lose one's temper.
- A kind of match for starting a fire:
- A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
- A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
- To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.
- Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.
- A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
- To liquify by heat; melt.
- To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
- To melt together.
- To combine through nuclear fusion.
- To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
- To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
- To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings.
Etymology / origin
From Italian fuso and French fusée, from Latin fūsus (“spindle”).
- fūsus(la)→
- fusée(French)→
- fuso(Italian)→
- fuse (English)
- Relations: der, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- pyus(Cebuano) (der)
- 灰士(Chinese) (bor)
- fiús(Irish) (bor)
- ヒューズ(Japanese) (bor)
- fius(Malay) (bor)
- piwūj(Marshallese) (bor)
- huso(Spanish) (cog)
- piyus(Tagalog) (bor)
- ฟิวส์(Thai) (bor)
- pius(Tok Pisin) (der)
- ffiws(Welsh) (bor)
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