different between fusion vs mix

English

Etymology

1555, from Middle French fusion, from Latin f?si?nem (the accusative of f?si?), from fusus, past participle of fund? (“I pour, I melt”) (see also found). Doublet of foison.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fju?.??n/
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

fusion (countable and uncountable, plural fusions)

1. The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof.
   1. (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
   2. (music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially types of jazz.
   3. A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
   5. The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
   6. (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
   7. (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
   8. (fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.

Antonyms

• (nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine): fission

Derived terms

• fusion reactor
• fusion torch
• reggae fusion
• jazz fusion
• nuclear fusion

Related terms

• fuse

Translations

Verb

fusion (third-person singular simple present fusions, present participle fusioning, simple past and past participle fusioned)

1. (nonstandard) to combine; to fuse

French

Etymology

From Middle French fusion, from Old French fusion, a borrowing from Latin f?si?, f?si?nem. Doublet of foison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.zj??/

Noun

fusion f (plural fusions)

1. (physics, chemistry) fusion (act of melting or liquefying something by heating it)
2. (figuratively) mix; mixture
3. (nuclear physics) fusion

   Antonym: fission

Derived terms

• en fusion
• point de fusion

Further reading

• “fusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin f?si?, f?si?nem.

Noun

fusion f (plural fusions)

1. fusion (act of melting or liquefying something by heating it)

Descendants

• English: fusion
• French: fusion

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin fusi?, fusi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???u?n/

Noun

fusion c

1. (physics) nuclear fusion
2. The process whereby two companies merge to become one.

Declension

See also

• fission

References

• fusion in Svensk ordbok (SO)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophones: micks, Micks

Alternative forms

• mixe (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mixen, from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-Germanic *miskijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *mey?-, *mey?- (“to mix”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, misk?n (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misce? (“mix”), Ancient Greek ??????? (mígnumi, “to mix”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (m?siti, “to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“to mix”), Sanskrit ????? (mi?ra, “mixed”), Persian ??????? (âmixtan, “to mix”), Old English m?sc (“mixture, mash”). More at mash.

Verb

mix (third-person singular simple present mixes, present participle mixing, simple past and past participle mixed)

1. (transitive) To stir together.

2. (transitive) To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate).
3. (transitive, intransitive) To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War

     I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations.
4. (transitive) To blend by the use of a mixer (machine).

5. (transitive, music) To combine (several tracks).

6. (transitive, music) To produce a finished version of (a recording).

7. (transitive, intransitive) To unite with in company; to join; to associate.

Synonyms

• (stir two or more substances together): blend, combine, mingle, intermix, mix together, mix up; See also Thesaurus:mix
• (combine items from two or more sources normally kept separate): mix together, mix up, muddle, muddle up

Derived terms

• bemix
• downmix
• inmix
• mixed
• mixing
• overmix
• undermix

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

A merger of a nominal use of the verb and a borrowing from Anglo-Norman mixte, from Latin mixtus, past participle of misce? (“mix”). Nowadays regarded automatically as the nominal form of the verb.

Noun

mix (plural mixes)

1. The result of mixing two or more substances; a mixture.

2. The result of combining items normally kept separate.
3. (music) The result of mixing several tracks.

4. (music) The finished version of a recording.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• mix in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mix in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• IMX, XMI

Catalan

Etymology

Probably from Andalusian Arabic ??? (mašš).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?mi?/

Noun

mix m (plural mixos, feminine mixa)

1. (usually repeated) A sound used to call a domestic cat.
2. (colloquial) The domestic cat.

Synonyms

• (domestic cat): gat, moix

Further reading

• “mix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mix” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “mix” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mix” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mí??]

Noun

m?x (inanimate)

1. second-person singular possessive singular of ?xtli; (it is) your eye.
2. second-person singular possessive plural of ?xtli; (they are) your eyes.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

Noun

mix m (plural mixen, diminutive mixje n)

1. mix, mixture
2. hybrid

Synonyms

• mengeling (1)
• kruising (2)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English mix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miks/

Noun

mix m (plural mix or mixes)

1. (music) mix

Related terms

• mixer
• mixeur

German

Pronunciation

Verb

mix

1. singular imperative of mixen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of mixen

Spanish

Noun

mix m (plural mix)

1. mix