fuse

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb.
2. 2
   A cord that, when lit, conveys the fire to some explosive device, such as a bomb: An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a constant speed to the other end.
3. 3
   The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.
4. 4
   A tendency to lose one's temper.
5. 5
   A kind of match for starting a fire: A friction match for smokers' use, having a bulbous head which when ignited is not easily blown out even in a gale of wind.
6. 6
   A kind of match for starting a fire: A match made of paper impregnated with niter and having the usual igniting tip.
7. 7
   A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.

Verb

1. 1
   To furnish with or install a fuse in (an explosive device) (see Usage notes for noun above).
2. 2
   To liquify by heat; melt.
3. 3
   To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably.
4. 4
   To melt together.
5. 5
   To combine through nuclear fusion.
6. 6
   To furnish with or install a fuse in (a circuit) to protect against overcurrent.
7. 7
   To stop operating, having been protected against overcurrent by its fuse blowing.
8. 8
   To form a bicyclic compound from two similar or different types of ring such that two or more atoms are shared between the resulting rings.