fuse

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Noun

1. A wick or cord used to convey flame to gunpowder, a bomb, or similar explosive.
2. 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.
3. Alternative spelling of fuze, a detonator, any mechanism igniting an explosive substance or device.
4. A tendency to lose one's temper.
   • When talking about being laid off, he has a short fuse.
5. 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.
6. A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
7. A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.

Verb

1. To furnish with a fuse, to install a fuse on.
2. Alternative spelling of fuze, to equip with a detonator.

Noun

1. 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.

Verb

1. To liquify by heat; melt.
2. To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
   • sensations and ideas fusing intimately together
3. To melt together.
4. To combine through nuclear fusion.
5. To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
6. To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
   • When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch.
7. 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.

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