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Definition of Safety fuse

1. Noun. A slow-burning fuse consisting of a tube or cord filled or saturated with combustible matter; used to ignite detonators from a distance.

2. Noun. An electrical device that can interrupt the flow of electrical current when it is overloaded.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Safety Fuse

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Literary usage of Safety fuse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Iron and Steel Institute (1892)
"Firedamp may be ignited by safety-fuse burning at the rate of one to one and a half yard per minute in any of the following ways : (1) By the incandescent ..."

2. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"(See Links, Fuse) Fuse, Magazine —A safety fuse so arranged as to readily permit the ... Fuse, Main A safety fuse or strip placed in a main circuit. ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1893)
"In points of simplicity, cheapness, ease of adjustment and low resistance, the safety-fuse possesses advantages over most, if not all, electro magnetic ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1883)
"More than fifty years have passed since ' The Miners' Patent safety fuse ' was invented by ... Bickford's Patent safety fuse is thus described in Dr. Ure's ..."

5. Notes on Military Explosives by Erasmus Morgan Weaver (1917)
"safety fuse, Cordeau Detonant, and Safety Squibs. 1638. safety fuse, cordeau detonant, and safety squibs must be packed in strong wooden boxes or barrels ..."

6. Hawkins' Electrical Dictionary: A Cyclopedia of Words, Terms, Phrases and by Nehemiah Hawkins (1910)
"A safety fuse. Fusible Plug-—In steam engineering, a piece of easily melted alloy, placed in one of the ... A safety fuse employed as a line protector. ..."

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