fuse

1. (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.

1. (transitive) To liquify by heat; melt.Examples: "Pure sodium is a lustrous metal... it fuses very easily at a temperature of 97°, and distils at a bright red heat (742°...)"transitive

2. (transitive) To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.Examples: "That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]"; "Actually the New York, New Haven and Hartford, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Bangor & Aroostook and Rutland Railroads already are doing so; if they are fused, they would have a combined route mileage of 5,269 and assets totalling £318 million, [...]."transitive

3. (intransitive) To melt together.Synonyms: meld, smeltintransitive

4. (ergative, physics, astronomy) To combine through nuclear fusion.ergative

5. (transitive, electricity) To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.transitive

6. (intransitive, electricity, of a circuit) To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.Examples: "When the bath overflowed, the downstairs lights fused, so we need a torch."intransitive