(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.

(transitive) To liquify by heat; melt. / (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. / (intransitive) To melt together.

(physics) The combining of the nuclei of small atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bomb explode.

(physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.

(nonstandard) to combine; to fuse

Fine charcoal of willow wood, used as a drawing implement. / A drawing made with it.

Moldy or musty. / Stale-smelling or stuffy. / (figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update. / (of wine) Tasting of the cask.

A fuse that is designed to detonate an explosive automatically when close enough to the target to destroy it.

The simultaneous firing of a number of firearms. / (by extension) A rapid burst.

To fire, or attack with, a fusillade.