fuze

Variant spelling of fuse used to differentiate senses, see Usage note there.

• enPR: fyo͞oz, IPA^(key): /fjuːz/
• Rhymes: -uːz

fuze (plural fuzes)

2. (military, professional usage) An auxiliary device with explosive components, used to detonate a munition.

fuze (third-person singular simple present fuzes, present participle fuzing, simple past and past participle fuzed)

1. (transitive, military, professional usage) To equip with a fuze.

• fuse

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fuze”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “fuze”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.