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Definition of Fuzes

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Bickford fuse Bick"ford fuse or fuze fuze, or Bickford match Bickford match A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.
Fuze
Fuse Fuse, or Fuze Fuze, n. (Elec.) A wire, bar, or strip of fusible metal inserted for safety in an electric circuit. When the current increases beyond a certain safe strength, the metal melts, interrupting the circuit and thereby preventing possibility of damage.
Fuze
Fuze Fuze, n. A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n. Chemical fuze, a fuze in which substances separated until required for action are then brought into contact, and uniting chemically, produce explosion. Concussion fuze, a fuze ignited by the striking of the projectile. Electric fuze, a fuze which is ignited by heat or a spark produced by an electric current. Friction fuze, a fuze which is ignited by the heat evolved by friction. Percussion fuze, a fuze in which the ignition is produced by a blow on some fulminating compound. Time fuze, a fuze adapted, either by its length or by the character of its composition, to burn a certain time before producing an explosion.

Meaning of Fuzes from wikipedia

- the wood fuze and hence initiate the timer. In the mid-to-late 19th century adjustable metal time fuzes, the fore-runners of today's time fuzes, containing...
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded he be allowed to use the fuzes, 200,000 s**** with VT fuzes (code named "POZIT") were used in the Battle of the Bulge...
- Füzes or Fuzes may refer to: Peter Fuzes (born 1947), Australian soccer player The Hungarian name for two villages in Romania: Fiziş, a village in Finiș...
- Fiuczynski Fuse (disambiguation) Fuzes (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles ****ociated with the title Fuze. If an internal link led you...
- is not appropriate. Most such dela**** fuzes are thus switchable to a "superquick" or immediate mode. Timed fuzes are used for airbursts. They take their...
- fuzes function on impact (percussion fuzes) or at a pre-determined time period after firing (time fuzes). However, by the 18th century time fuzes were...
- Fuze Beverage (/fjuːz/ fyooz), commercially referred to as simply Fuze (marketed in Switzerland, Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan as Fuse; formerly...
- Fuze is an upcoming British crime thriller heist film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Ben Hopkins. The film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo...
- required fuze length. Early airburst fuzes used igniferous timers which lasted into the second half of the 20th century. Mechanical time fuzes appeared...
- percussion fuze made of metal did not appear until 1861. Percussion fuzes Direct action fuzes Graze fuzes Delay fuzes Base fuzes Airburst fuzes Time fuzes Proximity...