Fusion vs Void - 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.
Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
* Bible, Genesis i. 2
* Shakespeare
* Massinger
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
* Camden
Being without; destitute; devoid.
* Bible, Proverbs xi. 12
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
* Bible, Isa. lv. 11
* Bible, Jer. xix. 7
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
* Alexander Pope
(computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
* 2005 , Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
* 2007 , Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development
An empty space; a vacuum.
* Alexander Pope
(astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
(materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
(fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
(label) To make invalid or worthless.
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* (1609-1674)
*:It was become a practiceto void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
*(w) (1643-1715)
*:after they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken
To empty.
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To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
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*:You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
*(John Webster) (c.1580-c.1634)
*:With shovel, like a fury, voided out / The earth and scattered bones.
*(Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
*:a watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices
To withdraw, depart.
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*:BY than come in to the feld kynge Ban as fyers as a lyon/ Ha a said kyng Lot we must be discomfyte / for yonder I see the moste valyaunt knyght of the world / and the man of the most renoume / for suche ij bretheren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge / wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye
To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
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*:If they will fight with us, bid them come down, / Or void the field.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 68:
As nouns the difference between fusion and void
is that fusion is fusion while void is an empty space; a vacuum or void can be .As an adjective void is
containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.As a verb void is
(label) to make invalid or worthless.fusion
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* (nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine) (l)Derived terms
* (l)void
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(wikipedia void)Etymology 1
From (etyl) vuit'', ''voide (modern vide).Adjective
(-)- The earth was without form, and void .
- I'll get me to a place more void .
- I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.
- divers great offices that had been long void
- He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor.
- [My word] shall not return to me void , but it shall accomplish that which I please.
- I will make void the counsel of Judah.
- null and void
- idol, void and vain
- In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.
- The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.
Noun
(en noun)- Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
- Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Synonyms
* pore * bubbleVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
* (make invalid or worthless) annul, cancel * evacuateEtymology 2
Alteration of (voidee).Noun
(en noun)- 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.