fusee
英 [fjuː'ziː]
美[fjʊ'zi]
- n. 引信；[轻] 耐风火柴；火管信号
英英释义
- 1. a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring
- 2. a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains
- 3. a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind
- 4. any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
英文词源
- fusee (n.)
- also fuzee, type of light musket, 1660s, from pronunciation of French fusil (see fusilier). As the name of a type of match used in lighting cigars and pipes by 1832, from fusee as a variant of fuse (n.).
词态变化
复数: fusees;