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Fusion   /fjˈuʒən/   Listen
Fusion

noun
1.
An occurrence that involves the production of a union.  Synonyms: merger, unification.
2.
The state of being combined into one body.  Synonym: coalition.
3.
The merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words.
4.
A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy.  Synonyms: nuclear fusion, nuclear fusion reaction.
5.
The combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept.  Synonym: optical fusion.
6.
Correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization.  Synonym: spinal fusion.
7.
The act of fusing (or melting) together.



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"Fusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... think to whom one has been taught to look up. To say that the deeper standards of judgments of value are framed by the situations into which a person habitually enters is not so much to mention a fourth point, as it is to point out a fusion of those already mentioned. We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all. But in general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry ...
— Democracy and Education • John Dewey

... considerable consecutive book—unless we also except the Life of Sterling,—which the author wrote without the accompaniment of wrestlings, agonies, and disgusts. Thirdly, though marking a stage in his mental progress, the fusion of the refrains of Chartism and Hero-Worship, and his first clear breach with Mazzini and with Mill, the book was written as an interlude, when he was in severe travail with his greatest contribution to English history. The last rebuff which Carlyle encountered ...
— Thomas Carlyle - Biography • John Nichol

... this opening, the conversation turned on New York, its gaieties, and the different persons known to them mutually. I saw that the two girls were struck with the set Miss Merton was in, which was a shade superior even to that of Mrs. Bradfort's, though the fusion which usually accompanies that sort of thing, brought portions of each circle within the knowledge of the other. As the persons named were utter strangers to me, I had nothing to say, and sat listening in silence. The opportunity was improved ...
— Afloat And Ashore • James Fenimore Cooper

... of the time, drawn from all parts of the Empire and from the dependent States, represented the extraordinary fusion attempted by Napoleon. Thus, at the battle of Ocana there were at least troops of the following States, viz. Warsaw, Holland, Baden, Nassau, Hesse-Darmstadt, Frankfort, besides the Spaniards in Joseph's ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... now arrived. We have collected our materials, and piled them up together, but just as all seems most propitious, le mouvement s'arrete, the materials will not coalesce. The brass and the silver, the iron and the gold, are all in the crucible, but there is no fusion, ...
— Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4 • Various


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