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fusor.

A coin melter.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈfjuːzə/UK/ˈfjuːzɚ/US
  1. A coin melter.

  2. A celestial body that, through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These include stars, stellar remnants, and brown dwarfs.

  3. An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.

Where this word comes from

From Latin fūsor, from fundō + -tor. By surface analysis, fuse + -or. The astronomical sense was coined by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, at the 2003 IAU conference.

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