fuzzes

Noun

fuzz (countable and uncountable, plural fuzzes)

1. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
   • His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.1895, Hamlin Garland, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, page 352
2. Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
   • ...scientific advances happen more often at the frontier of representation, at the edge of resolution where an image dissolves into fuzz and blur.2010, Iain Boyd Whyte, Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
3. The random data used in fuzz testing.
   • "Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program.2008, Asoke Talukder, Manish Chaitanya, Architecting Secure Software Systems, Boca Raton: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 94
4. A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
   • This gives a good soft clipping effect and a good fuzz sound.1994, R.A. Penfold, Music Projects, Boston: New Tech, →ISBN, page 33
5. A state of befuddlement.
   • I think I'm in a fuzz, and don't know what I ſay, I never ſaw the like.1784, Jonathan Swift, “Journal to Stella”, in The works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, page 54
6. Fuzziness, vagueness.

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