fuselike

English

Etymology

fuse +‎ -like

Adjective

fuselike (comparative more fuselike, superlative most fuselike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fuse.
   • 1885, Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, A system of practical medicine, volume 3, page 311:

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

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

     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.

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

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