fusion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fu=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

fusion, n. [L. fusio, fr. fundere, fusum to pour, melt: cf. F. fusion. See Fuse, v. t., aud cf, Foison.].

•  The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.  [1913 Webster]
•  The union or blending together of things, as, melted together.  [1913 Webster]

  "The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . .
  had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds."  [1913 Webster]
•  The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.  [1913 Webster]

Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fusion, n.
1 the act or an instance of fusing or melting.
2 a fused mass.
3 the blending of different things into one.
4 a coalition.
5 Physics = nuclear fusion.

Idiom

fusion bomb a bomb involving nuclear fusion, esp. a hydrogen bomb.

Derivative

fusional adj.

Etymology

F fusion or L fusio (as FUSE(1))

THESAURUS

fusion

Anschluss, addition, admixture, affiliation, agglomeration, aggregation, agreement, alignment, alliance, alloy, alloyage, amalgam, amalgamation, assimilation, association, blend, blending, cabal, cahoots, cartel, centralization, coadunation, coalescence, coalition, colleagueship, collegialism, collegiality, colliquation, combination, combine, combo, comminglement, commingling, commixture, composition, compound, comradeship, confederacy, confederation, confraternity, congeries, conglomeration, conjugation, conjunction, consolidation, conspiracy, copartnership, copartnery, decoagulation, deliquescence, deliquium, dissolution, dissolving, eclecticism, ecumenism, embodiment, encompassment, enosis, federalization, federation, fellowship, fluidification, fluidization, fraternalism, fraternity, fraternization, freemasonry, fusibility, fusing, hookup, identification, identity, immixture, inclusion, incorporation, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, interfusion, interlarding, interlardment, interminglement, intermingling, intermixture, inviolability, irreducibility, junction, junta, leaching, league, liquation, liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, marriage, meld, melding, melting, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture, oneness, organic unity, package, package deal, particularity, partnership, percolation, pluralism, purity, running, selfsameness, simplicity, singleness, singularity, sodality, solidarity, solidification, solidity, solubilization, solution, sorority, syncretism, syndication, syneresis, synthesis, thaw, thawing, thermonuclear fusion, thermonuclear reaction, thermoplasticity, tie-in, tie-up, unclotting, undividedness, unification, uniformity, union, uniqueness, unity, univocity, wedding, wholeness

ROGET THESAURUS

fusion

Combination

N combination, mixture, junction, union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment, coalescence, crasis, fusion, blending, absorption, centralization, alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid, resultant, impregnation, combined, impregnated with, ingrained, imbued inoculated.

Cooperation

N cooperation, coadjuvancy, coadjutancy, coagency, coefficiency, concert, concurrence, complicity, participation, union, additivity, combination, collusion, association, alliance, colleagueship, joint stock, copartnership, cartel, confederation, coalition, fusion, a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together, logrolling, freemasonry, unanimity, esprit de corps, party spirit, clanship, partisanship, concord, synergy, coaction, cooperating, in cooperation, in league, coadjuvant, coadjutant, dyed in the wool, cooperative, additive, participative, coactive, synergetic, synergistic, favorable to, unopposed, as one, shoulder to shoulder, synergistically, cooperatively, due teste valgono piu che una sola.

Calefaction

N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.