Fusion vs Advance - What's the difference?
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The merging of similar or different elements into a union.
(physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.
(music) a style of music that blends disparate genres; especially types of jazz.
A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures
The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.
* {{quote-book, 1855, James David Forbes, chapter=On Glaciers In General, year_published=1859, Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers
, passage=From a vault in the green-blue ice, more or less perfectly formed each summer, the torrent issues, which represents the natural drainage of the valley, derived partly from land-springs, partly from fusion of the ice.}}
* {{quote-us-patent, 1951, Peter L. Paull & Frederick Burton Sellers, Method of Reducing Metal Oxides, 2740706
, passage=The upper limit of temperature is determined by the point at which fusion of the ore takes place, or often, for practical purposes, the temperature at which the ore softens and agglomerates.}}
* {{quote-book, 2002, Philippe Rousset, chapter=Modeling Crystallization Kinetics of Triacylglycerols, Physical Properties of Lipids, editors=Alejandro G. Marangoni & Suresh Narine, isbn=0824700058
, passage=Below the temperature of fusion of the solid phase, the growth rate of the solid/ liquid interface at low undercooling is affected mainly by undercooling.}}
(lb) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.
(lb) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.
To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
(obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
* Bible, Esther iii. 1
* Prescott
To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
* Alexander Pope
To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
To move forwards, to approach.
(obsolete) To extol; to laud.
* Spenser
A forward move; improvement or progression.
An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
* Jay
* Kent
An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
(in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , chapter 4:
Completed before need or a milestone event.
Preceding.
Forward.
As nouns the difference between fusion and advance
is that fusion is fusion while advance is a forward move; improvement or progression.As a verb advance is
to bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.As an adjective advance is
completed before need or a milestone event.fusion
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Antonyms
* (nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine) (l)Derived terms
* (l)advance
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Alternative forms
* advaunceVerb
(advanc)- They advanced their eyelids. — Shakespeare
- Ahasueres advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes.
- This, however, was in time evaded by the monarchs, who advanced certain of their own retainers to a level with the ancient peers of the land
- to advance the ripening of fruit
- to advance one's interests
- to advance an argument
- Some ne'er advance a judgment of their own.
- Merchants often advance money on a contract or on goods consigned to them.
- to advance the price of goods
- He rose from his chair and advanced to greet me.
- greatly advancing his gay chivalry
Synonyms
* raise, elevate, exalt, aggrandize, improve, heighten, accelerate, allege, adduce, assignDerived terms
* advancement * in advance * in advance ofNoun
(en noun)- an advance in health or knowledge
- an advance in rank or office
- I shall, with pleasure, make the necessary advances .
- The account was made up with intent to show what advances had been made.
- an advance on the prime cost of goods
- [He] made the like advances to the dissenters.
- As the sun fell, so did our spirits. I had tried to make advances to the girl again; but she would have none of me, and so I was not only thirsty but otherwise sad and downhearted.
Adjective
(en adjective)- He made an advance payment on the prior shipment to show good faith.
- The advance man came a month before the candidate.
- The scouts found a site for an advance base.