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the tiny coward that dies on purpose so everything else survives.
means A device or strip of easily melted metal that breaks an electrical circuit when the current gets too high, protecting everything downstream; also, more broadly, the cord or detonating element that sets off an explosive, and as a verb, to join or blend things by melting.
from From Latin 'fusus,' the past participle of 'fundere,' meaning 'to pour' or 'to melt' — the same molten ancestor behind 'foundry' and 'fusion.' The electrical sense came later, named for the thin metal that literally melts (pours apart) under too much current. The explosive 'fuse,' a tube or cord carrying fire to a charge, may be a separate thread, possibly from Latin 'fusus' in the sense of a spindle (because the cord was spindle-shaped), and the two words have tangled together over the centuries.
- job
- melts itself to break a dangerous circuit
- name origin
- from Latin fusus, meaning poured or melted
- slow burn
- the fuse on dynamite gives you running time
- merger
- to fuse means to bond two into one
- first patent
- Edison patented an early fuse in 1890
project manhattan fuse — the electrical detonator that triggered the trinity nuclear test on july 16, 1945 in new mexico
titanic's boiler fuse plugs — lead alloy fuses in boiler room that melted during the 1912 sinking, allowing steam escape
apollo 1 fused hatch — the inward-opening hatch that couldn't be opened during the january 27, 1967 cabin fire that killed three astronauts