fusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: First appears c. 1555, in a translation by Richard Eden. From Middle French fusion, from Latin fūsiōnem (the accusative of fūsiō), from fusus, past participle of fundō (“to pour; to melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.
Inflected forms:
form: fusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These tasks may be summarised as comprising the maintenance and improvement of railway services and facilities during a transitional period; the reorganising of systems of management and technical practices, so as to secure maximum efficiency and economy from the fusion of four major railway systems (using for these purposes all the resources and traditional skill of the former companies); and the building-up of a sense of common purpose and esprit de corps among a staff of more than 600,000 men and women.
gloss: The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as Water or Cryſtal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining without Fuſion.
From a vault in the green-blue ice, more or less perfectly formed each summer, the torrent issues, which represents the natural drainage of the valley, derived partly from land-springs, partly from fusion of the ice.
The upper limit of temperature is determined by the point at which fusion of the ore takes place, or often, for practical purposes, the temperature at which the ore softens and agglomerates.
Below the temperature of fusion of the solid phase, the growth rate of the solid/ liquid interface at low undercooling is affected mainly by undercooling.
gloss: The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: fission
Related words: fuse
Derived words: atomic fusion
autofusion
bubble fusion
butt fusion
co-fusion
cold fusion
data fusion
defusion
electrofusion
enfuvirtide
fission-fusion society
flame fusion
fusional
fusion bomb
fusion center
fusion cuisine
fusioneer
fusionesque
fusionism
fusionist
fusionless
fusionlike
fusion protein
fusion reactor
fusion rocket
fusion tag
fusion torch
fusiony
heat of fusion
helium fusion
hemifusion
hot fusion
interfusion
jazz fusion
mechanofusion
microfusion
myofusion
nonfusion
nuclear fusion
postfusion
prefusion
pseudofusion
refusion
reggae fusion
sonofusion
stereofusion
world fusion
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