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fuselike

fuselike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a fuse.

Adjective

fuselike (comparative more fuselike, superlative most fuselike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fuse.
    • While it allays the patient's pain and the physician's anxiety, the fuselike appendix smoulders.1885, Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, A system of practical medicine, volume 3, page 311
    • Simplest of all is a small fuselike tube containing but two internal electrodes and having a third element in the form of a narrow clip or band that is placed around the middle of the glass container.1933, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 122, page 63

Forms of fuselike

comparativemore fuselike
superlativemost fuselike

Origin of fuselike

From fuse + -like.

Questions about fuselike

What does fuselike mean?
Fuselike means resembling or characteristic of a fuse.
What part of speech is fuselike?
Fuselike is an adjective.

Words near fuselike in the dictionary

  1. fuselaged
  2. fuselages
  3. fuseless
  4. Fuselier
  5. Fuseliers
  6. fuselike
  7. fusellar
  8. fuselloviral
  9. fusellovirus
  10. fuselloviruses
  11. fusellus

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