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      fuse
      noun
      (electrical engineering) 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.
      (manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
      A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.
      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.
      (cellular automata) 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.
      (figurative) A tendency to lose one's temper.
      verb
      (transitive) To liquify by heat; melt.
      (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
      (intransitive) To melt together.
      (ergative, physics, astronomy) To combine through nuclear fusion.
      (intransitive, electricity, of a circuit) To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
      (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
      To furnish with or install a fuse in (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).
      (organic chemistry) 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.
      Roots
      fundofus- · Latin · pour
      Synonyms for fuse
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