What is "fusion"

Fusion \Fu"sion\, n. [L. fusio, fr. fundere, fusum to pour, melt: cf. F. fusion. See Fuse, v. t., aud cf, Foison.]

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

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

3. 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.
   --C. Kingsley.

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

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

1550s, "act of melting by heat," from Middle French fusion or directly from Latin fusionem (nominative fusio) "an outpouring, effusion," noun of action from fusus, past participle of fundere "to pour, melt" (see found (v.2)). Meaning "union or blending of different things; state of being united or blended" is by 1776; used especially in 19c, of politics, in early 20c. of psychology, atoms, and jazz (in nuclear physics sense, first recorded 1947; in musical sense, by 1972).

n. 1 The merge of similar or different elements into a union. 2 (context physics English) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy. 3 (context music English) a style of music that blends disparate genres; especially types of jazz. 4 A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures 5 The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.

1. n. an occurrence that involves the production of a union [syn: merger, unification]

2. a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy [syn: nuclear fusion, nuclear fusion reaction]

3. the state of being combined into one body [syn: coalition]

4. the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

5. the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept [syn: optical fusion]

6. correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization [syn: spinal fusion]

7. the act of fusing (or melting) together

Fusion or synthesis, the process of combining two or more distinct entities into a new whole, may refer to:

Fusion was an American comic book series published from 1987– 1989 by Eclipse Comics, whose creative team included the writer Steven Barnes, the artists Lela Dowling and Steve Gallacci, conceptual editor Lex Nakashima and many more.

The world of Fusion is centuries in our future, when a series of galactic wars have led to a spiraling arms race between "tekkers and splicers" — that is, between those who take a technological and technocratic route to improving humanity, and those who have abandoned humanity altogether through genetic engineering. The story involves the exploits of a group of space mercenaries in an era when humans who have not been enhanced either genetically or cybernetically, are becoming extremely rare.

From the first issue, the book included two back up series featuring Dr. Watchstop, and the Weasel Patrol, a comic stemming from doodles "drawn" of Tan.

In 2014, the first five issues were reprinted in a collection titled Fusion: The Soulstar Commission.

__NOTOC__ "Fusion" is the seventeenth episode (production #117) of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

Enterprise encounters a group of liberal Vulcans, one of whom leads T'Pol into further exploring her emotions.

Fusion is a name of two fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Both characters are enemies of Spider-Man.

Fusion is a 1961 album by the Jimmy Giuffre 3.

The trio on the recording was Giuffre's second drummerless group. He said at the time that the trio was “searching for a free sense of tonality and form”.

It was remastered, remixed and re-released by ECM in 1992 as a double-album with the trio's other 1961-Verve recording, Thesis (with three previously unissued tracks from the August sessions).

Fusion is a computer game by Bullfrog released in 1989.

It is a multi-directional scrolling shoot 'em up game (with parallax scrolling). The action is viewed from the top. The player controls either a ground-based crawler or a spacecraft. There are thirteen levels.

Fusion, in comics, may refer to:

• Fusion (Eclipse Comics), a comic book series published in 1987 by Eclipse Comics
• Fusion (Marvel Comics), either of two supervillains appearing in Marvel Comics
• Fusion (Marvel/Top Cow), a crossover between Marvel and Top Cow Productions

In phonetics and historical linguistics, fusion, or coalescence, is the merger of features from two or more segments into a single segment.

A common form of fusion is found in the development of nasal vowels, which frequently become phonemic when final nasal consonants are lost from a language. This occurred in French and Portuguese. Compare the French words un vin blanc "a white wine" with their English cognates, one, wine, blank, which retain the n's.

Another example is the development of Greek bous "cow" from Indo-European *gʷous. Although *gʷ was already a single consonant, , it had two places of articulation, a velar stop and labial secondary articulation . In Greek bous these elements have fused into a purely labial stop .

Often the resulting sound has the place of articulation of one of the source sounds and the manner of articulation of the other. An example comes from Malay, where the final consonant of the prefix (where N stands for a "placeless nasal", i.e. a nasal with no specified place of articulation) coalesces with a voiceless stop at the beginning of the root to which the prefix is attached. The resulting sound is a nasal that has the place of articulation of the root-initial consonant. For example:

• becomes 'cut' ( and are both pronounced with the lips)

• becomes 'write' ( and are both pronounced with the tip of the tongue)

• becomes 'guess' ( and are both pronounced at the back of the tongue)

An extreme example of fusion occurred in Old Irish, where a vowel fused with a consonant before another consonant. The only feature that remained of the lost consonant was its length, in the form of a long vowel: → "prince". This phenomenon is called compensatory lengthening.

Vowel coalescence is extremely common. The resulting vowel is often long, and either between the two original vowels in vowel space, as in → → and → → in French (compare English day and law ), in Hindi (with ), and in some varieties of Arabic; or combines features of the vowels, as in → → and → → .

Fusion is a Christian charity that serves, supports and resources students in the United Kingdom and United States. It works across all denominations to develop joined up thinking and action for Christian mission by and among students. Structures and local arrangements vary, but in the US Fusion primarily uses small groups or ‘ cells’.

In both countries its main activities aim to support a national movement by equipping students, serving churches and developing student workers. Fusion's core values are being Relational, Biblical, Missional, Catalytic and Inclusive.

Fusion UK is affiliated to the Evangelical Alliance and has key partnerships with the Alpha course, CARE UK, Christian Aid Collective, Compassion, Soul Survivor and Tearfund.

Fusion is a television cable and satellite Hispanic news and satire channel owned by Fusion Media Network, LLC, an American multi-platform media company that is owned by Univision Communications, which relies in part on the resources of its parent company's news division, Noticias Univision. In addition to conventional television distribution, Fusion is also streamed online and on mobile platforms to subscribers of participating cable and satellite providers.

Launched on October 28, 2013, the network's content features news, lifestyle, pop culture, satire and entertainment aimed at English-speaking millennials, including those of a Hispanic background; the channel is Univision's first major push into English-language programming. Fusion is based out of "NewsPort", a converted studio facility at 8551 NW 30th Terrace in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida that it shares with Noticias Univision and Univision flagship station WLTV-DT; it maintains additional studios in Los Angeles and bureaus in Mexico City, New York City, and Washington, D.C.

Fusion (ARCTIC) is the branding name in which ARCTIC (formally Arctic Cooling) uses to name a certain line of products. These products include the Fusion 550- EU, Fusion 550RF, Fusion 550R, Fusion 550F and Fusion 1TB (external hard drive). As ARCTIC is more famous for its cooling products like the Freezer ( CPU Cooling) series and the Accelero (VGA Cooling), they have incorporated an 80mm fan on the end of the Fusion series that was uncommon previously. ARCTIC also uses the branding name Fusion for one of their data storage devices, the Fusion 1TB. This is a one terabyte external hard drive that is 10mm thick. Its case is made from Stainless Steel to protect the hard drive from any bumps and uses USB 3.0 for a fast transfer speed.