fusion
/ˈfjuː.ʒən/
fusion noun: the act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
Noun
fusion (countable and uncountable, plural fusions)
- The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
- 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...1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223
- A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
- A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially different types of jazz and reggae.
- A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
- The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
- 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.a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “[The Third Book of Opticks.] [Qu[estion] 25. Are there not other original Properties of the Rays of Light, besides those already described?]”, in Opticks: Or, A...
- 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.1855, James David Forbes, “On Glaciers In General”, in Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers, published 1859, page 239
- The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
- The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
- The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.
Verb
fusion (third-person singular simple present fusions, present participle fusioning, simple past and past participle fusioned)
fusion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fusion in Hindi
- nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine
- संलयन sanlyan
- merging of elements into a union
- संलयन sanlyan
fusion in Tamil
- உருகுதல், உருக்கும் முறை, பிணைவு, கலந்திணைப்பு, கூட்டணி
fusion in Marathi
- संलयन
fusion in Urdu
- fusion
- ايتلاف itilāf
More languagesFewer languages
- fusion in Bengali
- লয়, একীকরণ, একীভবন, গলন
- fusion in Telugu
- ఫ్యూజన్
- fusion in Malayalam
- ആണവസംയോജനം āṇavasaṁyōjanaṁ, സംയോജനം saṁyōjanaṁ
- fusion in Kannada
- ಬೆಸುಗೆ, ಐಕ್ಯ, ಒಂದುಗೂಡುವಿಕೆ, ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ
- fusion in Punjabi
- ਫਿਊਜ਼ਨ, ਫ਼ਯੂਜ਼ਨ, ਫਿਊਸ਼ਨ
- fusion in Gujarati
- ફ્યુઝન, ફ્યુઝનિંગ
- fusion in Odia
- ଫିଉଜନ୍
- fusion in Nepali
- फ्यूजन, फ्युजन, संलयन
- fusion in Tagalog
- sapisan, pagtutunaw, paghahalo, kapisanan
- fusion in Arabic
- اِنْدِمَاج indimāj, ذَوَبَان ḏawabān, اِتِّحَاد ittiḥād
- fusion in Indonesian
- fusi, pemfusian
- fusion in Persian
- موسیقی تلفیقی
Examples of fusion in a sentence
- 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.1951, Peter L. Paull, Frederick Burton Sellers, Method of Reducing Metal Oxides, US Patent 2740706:
- 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.2002, Philippe Rousset, “Modeling Crystallization Kinetics of Triacylglycerols”, in Alejandro G. Marangoni, Suresh Narine, editors...
Antonyms of fusion
Forms of fusion
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | fusions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | fusions |
| present participle | fusioning |
| past participle | fusioned |
| past | fusioned |
Origin of fusion
First appears c. 1555, in a translation by Richard Eden. From Middle French fusion, from Latin fūsiōnem (the accusative of fūsiō), from fusus, past participle of fundō (“to pour; to melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.
Words formed from fusion
- atomic fusion
- autofusion
- bubble fusion
- butt fusion
- co-fusion
- cold fusion
- data fusion
- defusion
- electrofusion
- enfuvirtide
- fission-fusion society
- flame fusion
- fusional
- fusion bomb
- fusion center
- fusion cuisine
- fusioneer
- fusionesque
- fusionism
- fusionist
- fusionless
- fusionlike
- fusion protein
- fusion reactor
- fusion rocket
- fusion tag
- fusion torch
- fusiony
- heat of fusion
- helium fusion
- hemifusion
- hot fusion
- interfusion
- jazz fusion
- mechanofusion
- microfusion
- myofusion
- nonfusion
- nuclear fusion
- postfusion
- prefusion
- pseudofusion
- refusion
- reggae fusion
- sonofusion
- stereofusion
- world fusion
Phrases with fusion
Words that rhyme with fusion
Questions about fusion
- What does fusion mean?
- Fusion means the act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
- What is fusion in Hindi?
- Fusion in Hindi is संलयन (sanlyan). See Fusion meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fusion in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is fusion?
- Fusion can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fusion?
- Fusion is pronounced /ˈfjuː.ʒən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fusion?
- The plural of fusion is fusions.
Words near fusion in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fusion (page history and authors); fusion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fusion (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ايتلاف (Urdu) (page history and authors); fusion (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fusion (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fusion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fusion (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fusion (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fusion (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fusion (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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