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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA coin melter. · 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. · An electrostatic inertial confinement fusion apparatus. A device that causes nuclear fusion through electrostatic field compression of the fusion fuel.
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.
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