Fuse

The word fuse (sometimes spelled fuze) has several meanings:

• Fuse (electrical), a device used in electrical systems to protect against excessive current.
• Fuse (hydraulic), a device used in hydraulic systems to protect against sudden loss of fluid pressure
• Fuse (explosives), a burning device for communicating fire to fireworks, antique gunpowder munitions, or blasting caps
• Fuze, a mechanical and/or electronic device for initiating military munitions such as bombs, shells, and mines

Computers

• FUSE (Certified Open Source SOA Solution), IONA Open Source SOA Infrastructure
• Field Upgradeable Systems Environment, a re-configurable lightweight operating system created to support development on Nallatech FPGA systems
• Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE), a Linux kernel module also available for FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris and Mac OS X
• Fuse (emulator), the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator
• Fuse Internet Service, a dial-up Internet service provider based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Science

• Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a space-based ultraviolet telescope and spectroscope
• Intramembranous ossification is the fusing of bones of the skeletal system

Music

• Fuse (band).
  • Fuse (Fuse album), a 1969 album by the above band.
• Fuse (Joe Henry album), a 1999 album by Joe Henry
• Fuse (Colin James album), a 2000 album by Colin James
• Fused (album), a 2005 album by Tony Iommi
• The Fuse, an album by Pennywise
• F.U.S.E., an alias for electronic artist Richie Hawtin
• "The Fuse", a song by Jackson Browne in his 1976 album The Pretender

Film

• Fuse (film), a 2003 film by Pjer Žalica, original Bosnian title Gori vatra
• Fuse is the last name of Kazuki from the anime film, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Organizations

• Fuse Games, a game developer
• Fuse (consumer electronics), a consumer electronics company started by Tony Fadell
• Fuse TV, an American cable television station

Miscellaneous

• Fuse (chocolate bar), a brand of chocolate bar made by Cadbury
• Fuse, Shimane (布施村; -mura), a village located in Oki District, Shimane, Japan
• Fuse (magazine), a Canadian arts and culture magazine
• Fuse (radio program), a musical radio program on CBC
• The Fuse (game show), a UK game show broadcast on ITV1

See also

• Fusebox (programming)
• Fusion (disambiguation)
• Flare (pyrotechnic), also known as a fusee
• Fusee (disambiguation)
• Fuze (disambiguation)