fusion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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. 2
   noun

   the act of fusing (or melting) together

3. 3
   noun

   correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae

4. 4
   noun

   the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept

5. 5
   noun

   an occurrence that involves the production of a union

6. 6
   noun

   a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

7. 7
   noun

   the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

8. 8
   noun

   the state of being combined into one body

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.