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fuse
  1. A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device.
  2. (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device.
  3. (electrical engineering) A device to prevent the overloading of an electrical circuit.
  4. (figuratively) Indicating a tendency to lose one's temper.
  5. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
  6. A kind of match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “Doing this will result in an excessive source current that will probably blow the circuit's fuse.”
      “Accompanying Maynard everywhere he goes is Lester Floyd, a young man with a quick fuse that Spenser has little trouble igniting.”
fusioneer
  1. (music) A performer or composer of fusion music
  2. An adherent of controlled nuclear fusion as a useable source of energy.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He's had a somewhat chameleonic career which has seen him as prog rock axe hero, fusioneer as well as a mainstream jazzer.”
fusebox
  1. A compartment containing the fuses or circuit breakers for a domestic electricity power supply.
fusionist
  1. An adherent of fusionism or a participant in a political fusion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Then the fusionist has a problem on his hands if his main case for fusionism is that the market fosters virtue.”
      “The adoption of fusionist policies by Lombards and Venetians alike proved futile.”
      “She was followed by Mallorca-born Buika, briefly a Tina Turner impersonator, but now a leading Flamenco fusionist.”
fusion
  1. The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof.
    1. (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
    2. (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially types of jazz.
    3. A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
    4. The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
    5. (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
    6. (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
    7. (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Rock music is a fusion of elements drawn from the roots of blues, country, and gospel music.”
      “Other techniques involve the high temperature fusion of powdered inorganic reagent and the rock.”
      “The 141 miles of railway between Crewe and Carlisle were constructed in a piecemeal fashion during the years 1832 to 1846 by a fusion of companies.”
fusionism
  1. The political practice, principle or theory of forming groups, of fusion.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Then the fusionist has a problem on his hands if his main case for fusionism is that the market fosters virtue.”
      “If a new kind of fusionism is to have any chance for success, it must aim beyond the specifics of particular, present-day controversies.”
      “For neoconservatives, such a fusionism would provide the wiggle room in the budget to increase the size of the military to a size they believe is more appropriate.”
fuseway
  1. Any of a group of fused connectors in a fusebox
fusing
fusioneers
  1. plural of fusioneer
fusionists
  1. plural of fusionist
fuseways
  1. plural of fuseway
fuseboxes
  1. plural of fusebox
fusings
fusions
  1. plural of fusion
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These fusions divide the bony labyrinth into two chambers called scala vestibuli and scala tympani.”
      “We constructed plasmid fusions by cloning the promoter regions of the wild-type parent and the inversion mutant onto the pRS550 plasmid.”
      “Ozomatli musical fusions and cross-cultural unions create a gumbo of styles that include dub, samba, salsa and hip-hop.”
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