fuse

Topic: ELECTRICITY

Date:	1500-1600
Language:	Latin
Origin:	fusus, past participle of fundere 'to pour, melt'

fuse
2 verb

fuse2 [intransitive and transitive]

1HC to join together physically, or to make things join together, and become a single thing

fuse (something) together

The egg and sperm fuse together as one cell.

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.

fuse (something) with something

Leonard takes Carver-style dirty realism and fuses it with the pace of a detective story.

fuse (something) into something

We intend to fuse the companies into a single organization.

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.

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.

Definition of fuse from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English within
the topic ELECTRICITY