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Fuze

Fuse \Fuse\, or Fuze \Fuze\, 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

Fuze \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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fuze

see fuse (n.).

Wiktionary
fuze

n. (archaic form of fuse English) (detonator) vb. To attach a fuze or similar detonator.

WordNet
fuze

n. any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant [syn: fuse, fusee, fuzee, primer, priming]

Wikipedia
Fuze (disambiguation)

Fuze is a device to detonate military munitions.

Fuze may also refer to:

  • Fuse (disambiguation) or fuze
  • Fuze Beverage, a manufacturer of teas and non-carbonated fruit drinks enriched with vitamins
  • Fuze (company), a provider of cloud-based unified communications as a service
  • Sansa Fuze, a digital audio player
  • DJ Fuze
  • HTC Touch Pro or AT&T Fuze, a smartphone
Fuze

In military munitions, a fuze or fuse is the part of the device that initiates function. In some applications, such as torpedoes, a fuze may be identified by function as the exploder. The relative complexity of even the earliest fuze designs can be seen in cutaway diagrams.

Fuze (band)

Fuze are an English pop rock band who formed in 2010. The band consists of Ed Alston (lead vocals and guitar), George Kirchner (lead guitar and vocals), Jack Goldsmith (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Keir Adamson (drums and backing vocals). They were signed by LUMI Records in 2011 prior to the release of their debut album, That's What She Said. The band's name originates from the American drink, Fuze. Their debut single, Hey You, was used in the soundtrack for the UK film, The Shouting Men, which featured Craig Fairbrass, Warren Llambias, John Barnes and Matt Daniel-Baker. Their second single, When You Come Home, was released in July 2011. Fuze were crowned Chelmsford's YFest winners in August 2011 after return from their tour of England. The band are believed to have finished writing for their second album, which is due for release in 2012.

Fuze (company)

Fuze (formerly Thinking Phone Networks, also formerly known as ThinkingPhones) is a provider of cloud-based Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices in New York City; San Francisco; Palo Alto; Seattle; Ottawa, Canada; Amsterdam; London, UK; Paris, France; Switzerland; Singapore; and Portugal.

Usage examples of "fuze".

The date when shell are fuzed or filled, as well as that on which any of these arrangements are changed, or the shell are examined before issue to vessels, together with the initials of the officer superintending these operations, should be legibly written and pasted on the shell, or stencilled on the box.

Voices, commands, laughter: for an hour activity prevailed in the nihilation area, while the target plane flew over the city again from the sea side, slipped away from the searchlights, and, caught again, became a Platonic target: The Number 6 manned the fuze setter, trying with cranks to make two mechanical pointers coincide with two electrical pointers and unflinchingly nihilating the evasive essent.

Rammer, 3 is to receive the Shell from 5, lift and enter it, sabot first, into muzzle, fuze out, as soon as the rammer is clear thereof.

For shells, the distances should suit the ranges of their fuzes, or time of burning, that the degree of certainty of explosion in direct or ricochet fire may be seen and noted.

This fuze should be carefully explained to the men, as shells have been taken from guns with the cut made into the priming-magazine, which would explode them at the muzzle.

Voices, commands, laughter: for an hour activity prevailed in the nihilation area, while the target plane flew over the city again from the sea side, slipped away from the searchlights, and, caught again, became a Platonic target: The Number 6 manned the fuze setter, trying with cranks to make two mechanical pointers coincide with two electrical pointers and unflinchingly nihilating the evasive essent.

The projectiles were fuzed to burst a tenth of a second after impact and spray their filling into the space beyond.

Wires had crossed and a lovely machine had fuzed and quit, become a useless lump for her to carry around the rest of her life.

They are fuzed to explode at the slightest distortion of the local gravity field by your drive generators.

The face was vacuously grinning, and gripped a fuzed stick of dynamite in its teeth.

She sees him in the distance of a defunct garden with the diviner or, if he has found something, unravelling that knot of wires and fuzes someone has left him like a terrible letter.

The Englishman not only knew about the absurd Italian fuzes but also knew the detailed topography of this region of Tuscany.

He had immediately invented the pocket shirt, which allowed fuzes and gadgets to be stored easily by a working sapper.

The fuzes are probably more sophisticated now, but you never know, you might be in luck.

They was using armor-piercing shells with time-delay fuzes, so the one that hit us didn't go off till it was in the sea.