fuselike

comparative more fuselike · superlative most fuselike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fuse.

   While it allays the patient's pain and the physician's anxiety, the fuselike appendix smoulders.

   1885, Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, A system of practical medicine, volume 3, page 311

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   Simplest of all is a small fuselike tube containing but two internal electrodes and having a third element in the form of a narrow clip or band that is placed around the middle of the glass container.

   1933, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 122, page 63

   Five years later Faraday (Ref. 2), experimenting with exploding fuselike metal wires in an inert atmosphere, evaporated thin films.

   2001, Milton Ohring, Materials Science of Thin Films, page 95