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noun

Fuse n. (Gunnery, Mining, etc.)

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.

(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)

To liquefy by heat; to render fluid; to dissolve; to melt.

To unite or blend, as if melted together. "Whose fancy fuses old and new."

Fuse v. i.

To be reduced from a solid to a fluid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.

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.

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"Fuse" Quotes from Famous Books

... fuse had burned steadily, if slowly. As the time drew near, there were those who openly predicted trouble. Others scoffed at the idea, although they claimed that this would be the last election ever held in Panama. But all united in declaring that, whatever the work to which ...

— The Ne'er-Do-Well • Rex Beach

... have come to America to stay. They remain, however, very clannish and according to the Federal Industrial Commission, without the "desire to fuse socially." The recent Polish immigrant is very circumscribed in his mental horizon, clings tenaciously to his language, which he hears exclusively in his home and his church, his lodge, and his saloon, and is unresponsive to his American environment. Not until the second ...

— Our Foreigners - A Chronicle of Americans in the Making • Samuel P. Orth

... my lanterrne and collecting-box, and come down the river to catch specimens of the beautiful moth for the naturalists at home in France. I land from my boat, and the boat come to take me away; but your sentry man re-fuse to let me go." ...

— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn

... of Sheffield, on Wednesday, January 10th, 1844, the Commissioner of Police exhibited a cast-iron machine, made for the express purpose of producing an explosion, and found filled with four pounds of powder, and a fuse which had been lighted but had not taken effect, in the works of Mr. Kitchen, Earl Street, Sheffield. On Sunday, January 20th, 1844, an explosion caused by a package of powder took place in the sawmill of Bently & White, at Bury, in Lancashire, and produced considerable damage. On Thursday, ...

— The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 • Frederick Engels

... master had dusted his jacket for him he swore an oath that he would have his revenge, which indeed the provost-marshal himself had heard as he chanced to be standing in the stable. Item, another soldier bore witness that he had seen the fellow cut a piece off the fuse not long before he led out his master's horse. And thus, thought the young lord, would it be with all witchcraft if it were sifted to the bottom; like as I myself had seen at Giitzkow, where the devil's ...

— Sidonia The Sorceress V2 • William Mienhold

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