fuselike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a fuse.
Example Sentences
- "While it allays the patient's pain and the physician's anxiety, the fuselike appendix smoulders."
- "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."
- "Five years later Faraday (Ref. 2), experimenting with exploding fuselike metal wires in an inert atmosphere, evaporated thin films."
Etymology
From fuse + -like.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more fuselike (comparative)
most fuselike (superlative)