Topic: CHEMISTRY
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| Date: | 1500-1600 |
| Language: | Latin |
| Origin: | fusus, past participle of fundere 'to pour, melt' |
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fuse2 [intransitive and transitive]
1HC to join together physically, or to make things join together, and become a single thing
2 to combine different qualities, ideas, or things, or to be combined [= merge]: 
Their music fuses elements as diverse as Cajun, bebop and Cuban waltzes.
Their music fuses elements as diverse as Cajun, bebop and Cuban waltzes. fuse (something) with something Leonard takes Carver-style dirty realism and fuses it with the pace of a detective story.
Leonard takes Carver-style dirty realism and fuses it with the pace of a detective story.3 British EnglishTEE if electrical equipment fuses, or if you fuse it, it stops working because a fuse has melted : The lights have fused again.
The lights have fused again.4 technicalHC if a rock or metal fuses, or if ,you fuse it, it becomes liquid by being heated : Lead fuses at quite a low temperature.
Lead fuses at quite a low temperature.
