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Meaning of fusion | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈfjuː.ʒən

Definitions

  1. A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy
  2. The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
    countable, uncountable
  3. A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae
  4. Something produced by mixing:admixture, amalgam, amalgamation, blend, commixture, merger, mix, mixture.
  5. A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
    countable, uncountable
  6. A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
  7. a piece of easily-melted wire included in an electric circuit so that a dangerously high electric current will break the circuit and switch itself off. She mended the fuse. sunder قابِس كهربائي бушон fusível pojistka die Sicherung sikring ασφάλεια ηλεκτρικού κυκλώματος fusible, plomo kaitse فیوز sulake fusibleנתיך osigurač (olvadó)biztosító sekering rafmagnsöryggi fusibile ヒューズ (전기의) 퓨즈 saugiklis drošinātājs fius zekeringsikringbezpiecznik فیوز fusível siguranţă пробка poistka varovalka osigu...
  8. A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
    countable, uncountable
  9. The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it
  10. The act or procedure of liquefying or melting by the application of heat.
  11. The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins
  12. The liquid or melted state induced by heat.
  13. The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
    countable, uncountable
  14. The merging of different elements into a union: the fusion of copper and zinc to form brass; the difficult fusion of conflicting political factions.
  15. The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
    countable, uncountable
  16. Physics A nuclear reaction in which atomic nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy.
    Physics
  17. The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
    countable, uncountable
  18. Music that blends jazz elements and the heavy repetitive rhythms of rock. Also called jazz-fusion, jazz-rock.
    jazz-fusion
  19. The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
    countable, uncountable
  20. A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from very different cultures or countries.
  21. the act or process of fusing or melting together; union
  22. the state of being fused

Equivalents

Bosanski плавка
Català fusió
Čeština fúze
Cymraeg ymasiad
Ελληνικά ένωση συγχώνευση
Français fusion
Galego fusión
हिन्दी संलयन
Hrvatski плавка
Bahasa Indonesia fusi pemfusian
Italiano fusion fusione
ქართული შერეული
한국어 결합 용해 융합 융해 핵융합
Kurdî fuze
Latina colliquatio
Македонски топење
Polski aliaż fusion fuzja stopienie
Português fundição fusão
Română fuziune
Српски плавка
Svenska fusion smältning
Українська топка
Tiếng Việt tổng hoà

Examples

“These tasks may be summarised as comprising the maintenance and improvement of railway services and facilities during a transitional period; the reorganising of systems of management and technical practices, so as to secure maximum efficiency and economy from the fusion of four major railway systems (using for these purposes all the resources and traditional skill of the former companies); and the building-up of a sense of common purpose and esprit de corps among a staff of more than 600,000 men and women.”
“This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as Water or Cryſtal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining without Fuſion.”
“From a vault in the green-blue ice, more or less perfectly formed each summer, the torrent issues, which represents the natural drainage of the valley, derived partly from land-springs, partly from fusion of the ice.”
“The upper limit of temperature is determined by the point at which fusion of the ore takes place, or often, for practical purposes, the temperature at which the ore softens and agglomerates.”
“Below the temperature of fusion of the solid phase, the growth rate of the solid/ liquid interface at low undercooling is affected mainly by undercooling.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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