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noun

Fusion n.

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.

The union or blending together of things, as, melted together. "The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs... had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds."

Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

(Biol.) The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fusion" Quotes from Famous Books

... citizens in the reform ideal. As Mr. Murray Seasongood has said, "The technique of good local government has been developed by study, but the will to bring about good local government has not been infused into the residents of our cities." Toward that will and fusion in the city of Cincinnati, men are agreed that Frank Nelson's moral and spiritual contribution was enormous. Leaders declare that in routing the forces of corrupt government from their strongholds, his was the most ...

— Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati • Warren C. Herrick

... by joy, by love. For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being. Intellect sets us apart from the things to be known, but love knows its object by fusion. Such knowledge is immediate and admits no doubt. It is the same as knowing our own selves, only ...

— Sadhana - The Realisation of Life • Rabindranath Tagore

... and white as sea-birds o'er the deep— "All shall combine their witching powers to steep "My convert's spirit in that softening trance, "From which to heaven is but the next advance;— "That glowing, yielding fusion of the breast. "On which Religion stamps her image best. "But hear me, Priestess!—tho' each nymph of these "Hath some peculiar, practised power to please, "Some glance or step which at the mirror tried "First charms ...

— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... still less did they use force to convert great multitudes. But after the Christian era a change came over the face of the Western world. The Roman empire—that greatest monument of human power, as Dean Church has called it—began the fusion of races into one vast political society; its dominion extended continuously from Britain on the west to Asia Minor and the countries bordering on the Caspian Sea; it settled the law and language of Southern ...

— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall

... limitation has its root in the general attempt of art to represent in sensuous concrete form the infinite and universal Spirit, and in the attempt of the classical type of art to blend so completely spiritual and sensuous existence that the two appear in mutual conformity. But in such a fusion of the spiritual and sensuous aspects Spirit cannot be portrayed according to its true essence, for the true essence of Spirit is its infinite subjectivity; and its absolute internal meaning does not lend itself to a full and free expression in the confinement ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various

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