fusor

Noun

fusor (plural fusors)

1. A coin melter.
   • There were proper officers in the exchequer for performing theſe operations, such as a peſour for weighing, and a fuſor for melting the coins that were to be tried; and theſe officers were furniſhed with proper inſtruments and conveniencies for their reſpective works.1789, The History of Great Britain, page 515
   • And that of my money, some is in real coin, that was paid by the tale; some to be valued ad scalum, as the Jews are most like to value it; others by increment,—you see I have the names and ways of increase and money matters at my tongue's end; others again must be taken ad pensum, and I may say...1846, Novels and Romances, page 171
2. A celestial body that, through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These include stars, stellar remnants, and brown dwarfs.
3. (experimental physics, nuclear physics) An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.