fused

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjuːzd/
• Rhymes: -uːzd

Verb

fused

1. simple past and past participle of fuse

Adjective

fused (not comparable)

1. Joined together by fusing
3. Melted
   • 1908, Thomas Edward Thorpe, “The Centenary of Davy's Discovery of the Metals of the Alkalis”, in The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science‎^[1], volume 97, number 2527, pages 210–211:

     To-day, sodium is made by thousands of tons, and by a process which in principle is identical with that by which it was first made by Davy, i.e., by the electrolysis of fused caustic soda.

4. Furnished with a fuse
5. (organic chemistry) Having at least one bond between two atoms that is part of two or more separate rings

Derived terms

• fused deposition modelling
• fused grid
• fused head
• fused kidney
• fused multiply-add
• fused quartz
• fused sentence

 

Anagrams

• feuds