different between fusion vs void

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): /v??d/
• Rhymes: -??d
• Hyphenation: void

Etymology 1

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from a Vulgar Latin *vocitus, related to Latin vacuus (“empty”).

Adjective

void (not comparable)

1. Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.

   • The earth was without form, and void.

   • c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman

     I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.

2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

     divers great offices that had been long void

3. Being without; destitute; devoid.

   • He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.

4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

   • [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.

   • I will make void the counsel of Judah.

5. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

   null and void

6. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
7. (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.

Translations

Noun

void (plural voids)

1. An empty space; a vacuum.

   Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
2. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
3. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
4. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
5. (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.

Synonyms

• ((engineering) collection of vacancies): pore
• ((engineering) pocket of vapour in fluid): bubble

Hyponyms

• ((astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies): Local Void

Translations

Verb

void (third-person singular simple present voids, present participle voiding, simple past and past participle voided)

1. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
   • after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken

2. (transitive, medicine) To empty.

3. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.

   • You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur

   • 1612, John Webster, The White Devil

     With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.

   • a. 1692, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Repentance

     a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
   • If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.

Synonyms

• (make invalid or worthless): annul, cancel
• ((medicine) to empty): evacuate

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of voidee.

Noun

void (plural voids)

1. (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:

     Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.

Anagrams

• Ovid, divo

Middle French

Alternative forms

• voit

Verb

void

1. third-person singular indicative present of veoir