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Vinony

fusion

noun

  1. sound change where two features blend into one such as French nasal vowels; opposite of unpacking
  2. melt into lump, melting together
  3. type of nuclear reaction
  4. musical genre
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfjuː.ʒən/

noun

Etymology: 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.

  1. 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 systems (using for these purposes all the resources and traditional skill of the former companies); and the building-up of a sense of common purpose and esprit de corps among a staff of more than 600,000 men and women.”

  2. The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
  3. The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
  4. The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
  5. The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.

    “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.”

    “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.”

  6. The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
  7. The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.
  8. The act of merging separate things, or the result thereof.

verb

Etymology: 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.

  1. To combine; to fuse.