fusionn.
/ˈfjuːʒn/, U.S. /ˈfjuʒən/ 1. figurative.1850 A. Jameson Legends Monastic Orders 238 That wonderful religious movement which..threw men's minds into a state of fusion.
a. The action or operation of fusing or rendering fluid by heat; the state of flowing or fluidity in consequence of heat. Also in phrases †of easy, hard fusion: melted with ease or difficulty. †watery fusion: the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > [noun]
meltingeOE
fusion1555
fusing1832
meltdown1919
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > [noun] > processing > melting
fusion1555
solutiona1676
fusing1832
the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > phases > [noun] > phase transitions > specific
sublimationa1393
fixation1393
liquefaction1477
fusion1555
condensation1614
congealing1762
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 327v To brynge it to fusion or meltynge.
1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 14 in Jewell House Although some sortes of them [sc. Ashes] bee of harder fusion or melting than others.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 51 Flints and pebbles are subject unto fusion . View more context for this quotation
1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor (1686) i. 5 Oars..of an easier Fusion.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 12 This Operation is..seldom perform'd without Melting or Fusion.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 53 When exposed to the heat of boiling water, they undergo the watery fusion; that is to say, the water which they contain becomes sufficient to keep the barytes in solution.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 5 The texture of steel is rendered more uniform by fusion.
1832 G. R. Porter Treat. Manuf. Porcelain & Glass 70 That degree of heat must be employed which will give perfect fusion to the glaze.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 199 It [the earth] existed at one time in a state of fusion.
b. concrete. A fused mass.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [noun] > melted > fused
fusion1823
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > formed by coalescence or cohesion
clota1000
conglutination?1533
coagulation1646
concretion1646
coagmentation1678
fusion1823
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 138 The fusion is to be raised to the tempering height.
1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 61 Clouds, which appeared but a fusion of the great orb of light.
1882 T. Coan Life in Hawaii 330 Drawing out small lumps of the adhering fusion, they moulded it, before it had time to cool, into various forms.
a. Thinning, attenuation (of the blood). Cf. fuse v.2 1d. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > thinness of blood
wateriness?1543
fusion1710
hydrohaemia1840
hydraemia1845
1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 54 A Decoction of Burdock..keeps the blood in a due mixture, and hinders its Fusion.
b. In etymological sense: A pouring; pouring forth (of the blood); ? = circulation n. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood
runeOE
stranda1240
flux1377
bleedingc1385
rhexisc1425
issuec1500
haemorrhagy?1541
bleeda1585
sanguination1598
falla1616
haemorrhage1671
saltation1672
persultation1706
fusion1725
haematosis1811
phleborrhagia1833
secondary haemorrhage1837
splinter haemorrhage1931
haemorrhaging1967
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 114 The Arteries, on whose Forces the Division and Fusion of the Blood entirely depend.
3. attributive.1864 H. Greeley Amer. Conflict I. xxii. 328 The refusal of part of the Douglas men to support the ‘Fusion’ ticket (composed of three Douglas, two Bell, and two Breckinridge men).1896 Daily News 27 July 7/5 Great difficulties are inevitable in making a fusion ticket in the various States.
a. The union or blending together of different things (whether material or immaterial) as if by melting, so as to form one whole; the result or state of being so blended. Const. into, with.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > [noun] > coalescence or fusion
concretion1603
coalition1605
confusion?1608
coagulation1622
coalescence1652
concrement1656
fusion1776
coalescent1784
solution1820
intergrowtha1859
symphytism1871
fusing1886
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. iv. 28 By fusion those parts can easily be reunited. View more context for this quotation
1833 C. Lamb Ellistoniana in Last Ess. Elia 35 That harmonious fusion of the manners of the player into those of every day life.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. on Shakespeare (1849) 10 The fusion of the sensual into the spiritual.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iv. l. 434 A fusion of nations..and an assimilation of races.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vii. vi. 252 This absolute fusion of the religion of peace with barbarous warfare.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 56 Every thing English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements.
1868 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) II. iii. xxxviii. 351 There seems to have been a partial fusion of the mammalia at some remote period.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. xiii. 398 He argues for a fusion of law and equity.
1880 H. C. Bastian Brain 28 Fusions of ganglia may occur during the development of some animals.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 582 The embryo-sac is formed by the fusion of two cells equivalent to spore-mother-cells.
b. Politics. The coalition (of parties or factions).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > forming of groups of parties or powers
coalition1653
fusion1845
fusionism1851
alignment1866
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. i. iii. 50 Political conciliation became the slang of the day, and the fusion of parties the babble of clubs.
1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) I. i. 8 A new reign was favorable..to the fusion of parties.
1879 J. R. Green Readings Eng. Hist. vi. 33 Their union was the result of no direct policy of fusion.
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(a) Psychology and Physiology. [translating German verschmelzung (J. F. Herbert Psychol. als Wiss. (1824) i. 200).] A blending together of separate simultaneous sensations into a new complex experience or qualitative perception; the process whereby a succession of similar stimuli produces a continuous response or the sensation of a continuous stimulus.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > action of nervous system > [noun] > reception or transmission of impulses
reflection1836
irradiation1847
conduction1855
diffusion1859
projection1872
conductivity1881
fusion1892
facilitation1894
reciprocal innervation1896
chemoreception1901
photoreception1902
neurotropism1905
proprioception1906
cheirokinaesthesia1913
schema1920
recruitment1923
conductance1926
volley1928
rectification1941
supersensitivity1949
mechanoreception1958
neurotransmission1961
electroreception1963
phototransduction1972
somatotopy1976
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > process of perception > fusion of sensations > [noun]
coalescence1771
fusion1892
syncretism1926
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > continuation of response > [noun]
fusion1892
perseveration1907
stimulus generalization1943
1892 W. James Text-bk. Psychol. 57 The so-called Fusion of Sensations in Hearing.
1903 G. F. Stout Groundwork Psychol. 45 They [sc. sensations] may combine..like the bitterness, sweetness, and aroma of a cup of coffee... The first of these modes of union is called fusion or blending... Fusion is characterised by the absence of any definite order among the constituents of the sensation complex.
1911 E. B. Titchener Text-bk. Psychol. ii. 351 The classical instance of the qualitative perception is the tonal fusion.
1946 D. P. C. Lloyd in J. F. Fulton Howell's Textbk. Physiol. (ed. 15) ii. 37 The frequency of stimulation necessary to promote full mechanical fusion of the contraction response is..different for different muscles.
1952 H. H. Emsley Visual Optics (ed. 5) I. i. 29 The final meticulous adjustment of the eyes is carried out under the compelling desire for fusion of the two uniocular images into a single perceptual image in the cortex.
(b) Psychiatry. [translating German mischung (Freud Das Ich u. das Es (1923) iv. 50).] In Freudian theory, the union and balance of life and death instincts which exist in normal persons.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > theories of Freud > [noun] > balance of instincts
fusion1927
1927 J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Ego & Id iv. 57 Once we have admitted the conception of a fusion of the two classes of instincts with each other, the possibility of a ‘defusion’ of them forces itself upon us. The sadistic component of the sexual instinct would be a classical example of instinctual fusion..and the perversion in which sadism has made itself independent would be typical of defusion.
1946 Mind 55 83 Such processes as..the ‘fusion’ and subsequent ‘defusion’ of the various attitudes of the self.
1953 Hibbert Jrnl. July 332 Freud noted how masochism and sadism both arise from fusion of the life and death instincts.
1953 Hibbert Jrnl. July 332 This peculiar fusion, with the death instinct preponderating, lies at the base of the desires..for sexual self-mutilation.
d. Nuclear Physics. The formation of a heavier, more complex nucleus by the coming together of two or more lighter ones, usually accompanied by the release of relatively large amounts of energy; also, the utilization of this process as a source of energy.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear fusion > [noun]
fusion1947
nuclear fusion1952
1947 Sci. News Let. 7 June 358 (heading) Atom fusion gives energy.
1952 Economist 22 Nov. 541/1 This may have been a hybrid bomb, part atom, part hydrogen, but enough to prove that the scientists have solved the problem of releasing energy by nuclear fusion.
1957 Rev. Mod. Physics XXIX. 565/1 It has been suggested..that the fusion of helium plays an important role in energy generation and element synthesis in the red-giant stage of the star's evolution.
1958 Engineering 21 Feb. 227/3 Fission and fusion, at least in the initial stages, may well be complementary, both being necessary for a properly integrated nuclear power programme.
1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) xvi. 479 The fusion of hydrogen into helium in the cores of these more massive stars may be principally by means of the carbon cycle.
1968 M. S. Livingston Particle Physics i. 5 Another special type of interaction is the fusion of lightweight nuclei such as H2..into the more stable He4 nuclei plus extra neutrons, with the release of several million electron volts per particle.
1969 J. Dougall tr. M. Born Atomic Physics (ed. 8) x. 356 The only example of a man-made thermonuclear fusion process is in the form of the hydrogen bomb, where the high temperatures are produced by means of an initiating atomic (i.e. fission) explosion.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
fusion energy n.
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1955 Sci. News 38 8 He [sc. Dr. Bhabha] predicted that a way would be found ‘for liberating fusion energy in a controlled manner within the next two decades’.
fusion reaction n.
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1950 F. Gaynor Encycl. Atomic Energy 129 Fusion reactions go on constantly in the interiors of the stars..and form the basic principle of the hydrogen bomb.
1957 O. Frisch in Atlantic Oct. 76 The fusion reaction—as far as we can see at present—will have to be operated at a temperature of many million degrees, and the production, control, and containment of such temperatures..is a stupendous problem.
fusion reactor n.
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1955 Time 25 July 62/3 If a fusion reactor works with reasonable efficiency it would have great advantages.
fusion weapon n.
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1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 94/1 The presence of fission or fusion weapons in another major conflict seems inevitable.
1965 H. Kahn On Escalation vi. 96 ‘Clean’ fusion weapons, leaving little or no residual fallout.
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fusion bomb n. a bomb in which the energy released is derived from an uncontrolled process of nuclear fusion; spec. a hydrogen bomb.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > fusion or hydrogen
hydrogen bomb1947
fusion bomb1950
superbomb1950
super1951
cobalt bomb1954
1950 Sci. Amer. Mar. 13/2 The designer of a fusion bomb clearly would start with a fission bomb of uranium or plutonium, the explosion of which would produce the high temperatures required for the thermonuclear fusion reaction.
fusion frequency n. (also critical fusion frequency) [translating German verschmelzungsfrequenz (J. v. Kries 1903, in Zeitschr. f. Psychol. u. Physiol. d. Sinnesorgane XXXII. 115)] Physiology = flicker-fusion frequency n. at flicker n.3 Compounds 2.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > measure > [noun] > rate
R1841
productivity1881
fusion frequency1924
mutation rate1930
turnover rate1943
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker > rapid flicker > fusion frequency or law regarding
Talbot's law1895
fusion frequency1924
1924 J. P. C. Southall tr. H. von Helmholtz Treat. Physiol. Optics II. 374 Porter compared the fusion frequencies for a series of different intensities of illumination.
1970 T. Cornsweet Visual Perception xiv. 393 If the frequency of flashing of a light is gradually increased from a low rate, there will be some frequency for which the light will just look steady.., and this is called the critical fusion frequency, or CFF.
fusion nucleus n. Biology a cell nucleus that results from the fusion of two or more nuclei.
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > cell organelle or contents > [noun] > nucleus > types of
phacocyst1845
areola1862
subnucleus1862
fusion nucleus1904
eukaryon1957
1904 Ann. Bot. 18 345 The fusion-nucleus then increased in size.
1928 E. B. Wilson Cell (ed. 3) v. 400 The pronuclei conjugate immediately after the entrance of the sperm and apparently fuse completely to form a fusion-nucleus.
1941 O. A. Johannsen & F. H. Butt Embryol. Insects & Myriapods ii. 9 The zygote, or fusion nucleus, in which the diploid number of chromosomes has been restored.
fusion welding n. a welding technique in which the metal is melted and joined without the application of pressure.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > types of
butt welding1878
lead burning1886
arc welding1890
thermite process1905
thermite welding1906
resistance welding1908
spot welding1908
seam welding1917
fusion welding1918
projection welding1918
stud welding1918
metal arc welding1926
pressure welding1926
metallic arc welding1927
flash-butt welding1933
flash welding1933
stitch welding1934
rightward welding1936
block welding1943
submerged-arc welding1945
friction welding1946
T.I.G.1960
microwelding1962
1918 Nature 11 Apr. 105/2 The oxy-acetylene flame is most generally used for fusion welding, owing to its high temperature.
1958 Engineering 18 Apr. 501/1 The equipment includes an a.c./d.c. set for fusion welding under argon..and a resistance welding machine.
fusion weld n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > joint made by > types of
rust joint1839
butt weld1850
jump-weld1864
jump-joint1874
tee-joint1888
spot weld1908
tack weld1919
seam weld1920
fillet weld1929
fusion weld1930
braze1934
projection weld1938
flash weld1959
1930 Engineering 14 Mar. 364/1 With fusion welds, there is no difficulty in obtaining metal stronger than the plate.
fusion-welded adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > welded > in specific manner
butt-welded1848
lap-welded1848
three-iron1892
spot-welded1921
fusion-welded1930
projection-welded1933
microwelded1963
1930 Engineering 14 Mar. 364/1 It has been customary to express the strength of a fusion-welded butt joint as a percentage of the plate strength.
1959 B.S.I. News Nov. 7/2 Fusion-welded pressure vessels.
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Music in which elements of more than one popular style are combined, esp. having jazz as a component; cf. jazz-rock at jazz n. and adj. Compounds 1b. Frequently attributive or as the second element in compounds.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > types of
rooty-toot1852
soul music1920
Chicago1923
gutbucket1925
symphonic jazz1926
Dixieland1927
jive1928
white jazz1931
Harlem1934
jump1937
New Orleans1938
free jazz1941
progressive jazz1944
bebop1945
gypsy swing1945
modern jazz1946
bop1948
new jazz1949
cool1952
Afro-jazz1954
funk1954
gypsy jazz1955
trad jazz1955
trad1956
whorehouse music1956
new thing1962
fusion1965
1939 Atlanta Constit. 14 May (Sunday Mag.) 8/1 There's quite a lot to these intriguing numbers which are a sort of fusion of jazz and the classics.]
1965 N.Y. Times 28 Nov. xiii. 9/5 Some observers of American popular music trends believe that the ultimate ‘fusion music’, the first truly national popular music we will have, will be largely composed of country music with rock 'n' roll rhythmic and folk elements.
1973 Jazz Jrnl. Sept. 18/2 The failures tended to be found where the forthright mood of jazz clashed with the more delicate form of the other style, as was the case with Indo-jazz fusions.
1977 Rolling Stone 16 June 60/3 White, fond of writing suites in emulation of classical composers, continues to ignore his real strength, which is fusion-funk.
1978 Washington Post 12 May (Weekend Suppl.) 30/3 Washington now boasts a wealth of clubs—everything from traditional rhythm 'n' blues sounds to jazz fusion styles.
1981 R. Christgau Rock Albums of 70s 252 The top musicians in fusion are gathered by the man who made it all possible to show the genre off aesthetically.
1988 G. Lees Meet me at Jim & Andy's x. 187 Paquito was with one of the world's greatest fusion bands, Irakere.
2001 Q July 127/5 Pioneering 1960s fusion sitarist Ananda Shankar.
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Originally U.S. = fusion cuisine n. at Additions.
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1983 Time (Nexis) 12 Sept. Some practitioners of nuova cucina make no secret of the fact that they are aiming for a fusion of French and Italian culinary techniques.]
1988 Nation's Restaurant News (Nexis) 9 May The restaurant's French-Asian fusion is apparent in a dessert trio of flavored creme brulees—ginger, chocolate mint, and an [sic] mandarin orange—served in sake cups.
1998 Grocer 22 Aug. 44/2 What would typify fusion is to have a pasta dish, but to make it with Asian herbs. So you would use basil, but it would be Thai basil.
2001 Evening Standard 21 Sept. (ES Mag.) 49/1 Suddenly, anyone who could lay their hands on a fistful of lemon grass, a couple of kangaroo fillets, a bucket of coconut broth and a bunch of tamarillos was ready to open a fusion restaurant.
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fusion cuisine n. originally U.S. a style of cookery which blends ingredients and methods of preparation from different countries, regions, or ethnic groups; food cooked in this style.
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1986 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 15 Apr. The dishes Allison creates enjoy an enticing blend of ethnicity, one more subtle and intriguing than any of the influences considered separately... ‘We've always been eating what I call fusion cuisine, and it's going on more rapidly today than ever before.’
1993 Calgary (Alberta) Herald 24 Mar. d1 A wonderful fusion cuisine supper featuring tiger prawns in green curry sauce with mascarpone polenta.
2000 P. Johnson & C. O'Brien World Food: New Orleans 162 The global flavors of fusion cuisine and the essentialist simplicity of new American cuisine have led to exciting high-end interpretations of classic dishes that aren't bound by the rules of tradition.
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