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Fuze, Fuse n. (Elec.) A wire, bar, or strip of fusible metal inserted for safety in an electric circuit. When the current increases beyond a certain safe strength, the metal melts, interrupting the circuit and thereby preventing possibility of damage. It serves the same function as a circuit breaker.

Fuze n. A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.

Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion.

Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile.

Electric fuze, a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current.

Friction fuze, a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction. See fuzee (1).

Percussion fuze, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound.

Time fuze, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.

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Etymology of 'Fuze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fuze" Quotes from Famous Books

... the gun, and moreover the amount of composition to burn a stipulated time could not easily be gauged. The shell was, therefore, fitted with a hollow forged iron or copper plug, filled with slow-burning powder. It was impossible to ignite with certainty this primitive fuze simply by firing the gun; the fuze was consequently first ignited and the gun fired immediately afterwards. This entailed the use of a mortar or a very short piece, so that the fuze could be easily reached from the muzzle without unduly endangering the gunner. ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... said this, he gave a fire-ball to Solomon Eagle, who lighted the fuze at Chowles's lantern. The enthusiast then approached a window of the baker's shop, and breaking a small pane of glass within it, threw the fire-ball into the room. It alighted upon a heap of chips ...

— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... can fuse your guests the better," she went on, as if she were giving a lecture. "Everyone knows that; it's the A B C of entertaining; but they must have something to agree about—a sort of rallying point. And I was ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 • Various

... fixed it to a couple of feet of fuse. Then I took a quarter of a lentonite brick, and buried it near the door below one of the sacks in a crack of the floor, fixing the detonator in it. For all I knew half those boxes might be dynamite. If the cupboard held such ...

— The Thirty-nine Steps • John Buchan

... the muffled groans of the dying, Aramis and Porthos glided unseen along the granite walls of the cavern. Aramis led Porthos into the last but one compartment, and showed him, in a hollow of the rocky wall, a barrel of powder weighing from seventy to eighty pounds, to which he had just attached a fuse. "My friend," said he to Porthos, "you will take this barrel, the match of which I am going to set fire to, and throw it amidst our enemies; ...

— The Man in the Iron Mask • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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