fusor
/ˈfjuːzɚ/noun
fusor is a noun meaning “A coin melter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-S-O-R, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fusor is fusors.
What does fusor mean?
noun
- 1
A coin melter.
- 2
A celestial body that, through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These include stars, stellar remnants, and brown dwarfs.
- 3
An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fusor?
- UK /ˈfjuːzə/
- US /ˈfjuːzɚ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fusor
- fusors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fusor?
Fusor appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Fusor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense celestial body that, through self-gravity, can perform nuclear fusion in its cor:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fuseur |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does fusor come from?
From Latin fūsor, from fundō + -tor. By surface analysis, fuse + -or. The astronomical sense was coined by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, at the 2003 IAU conference.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).