fusion

fusion

1. See nuclear fusion

2. a coalition of political parties or other groups, esp to support common candidates at an election

3. Psychol the processing by the mind of elements falling on the two eyes so that they yield a single percept

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fusion

(fyoo -zhŏn) See nuclear fusion.

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fusion

[′fyü·zhən]

(nuclear physics)

Combination of two light nuclei to form a heavier nucleus (and perhaps other reaction products) with release of some binding energy. Also known as atomic fusion; nuclear fusion.

(physical chemistry)

A change of the state of a substance from the solid phase to the liquid phase. Also known as melting.

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fusion

In welding, the melting together of filler metal and base metal, or of the base metal alone, which results in coalescence.

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FUSION

(1)

Software package supplied by Network Research Corporation claiming to connect various different configurations of LAN.

fusion

(programming)

A program transformation where a composition of two functions is replaced by in-lining them and combining their bodies. E.g.

f x = g (h x) ==> f x = g (2 * x) g x = x + 1 f x = 2 * x + 1 h x = 2 * x

This has the beneficial effect of reducing the number of function calls. It can be especially useful where the intermediate result is a large data structure which can be eliminated.

See also vertical loop combination.

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Fusion

The following "Fusion" products are in this encyclopedia:

Product         Type of Software VMware Fusion      Mac Virtual Machine

   ColdFusion         Web authoring

   NetObjects Fusion  Web authoring

   FOCUS Fusion       OLAP database


  Product         Type of Hardware AMD Fusion         CPU + GPU chip

   Fusion Drive       Mac HD/SSD drive

   Apple A series     Apple A10 processor

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Fusion

 

in linguistics, a means of combining a stem with an affix, in which the nature of the stem is determined by the nature of the affix, or vice versa. Fusion is distinct from agglutination, which lacks such a dependence. Since the degree of dependence can vary, one may speak of the degree of fusion, which is inversely proportional to the degree of agglutination.

Fusion is said to be minimal when the affix determines only the class of the stem; for example, the Russian suffix -ost’ (“-ness”) requires an adjectival stem. Fusion is termed maximal when the combination of stem and affix influences the selection of a particular morph for the stem or for the affix, in both inflection and word formation. In inflection, compare Russian vid-ish’ (“you see,” sing.) with vizh-u (“I see”) and id-esh’ (“you are going,” sing.); compare Greek π∈πoμφ-α (“I sent,” perf.) with π∈μπ-ω (“I send”). In word formation, compare English “depth” and “deep.” The term “fusion” is often used only to designate the latter phenomenon, that is, maximal fusion. Languages in which inflected forms are formed by means of fusion are called fusional languages.

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