fiús meaning in English — fuse, valence

English meaning

fuse noun A safety device containing a component that melts to break an electrical circuit if the current is too high.
valence noun In chemistry, the combining power of an atom, measured by the number of chemical bonds it can form or the number of electrons it gains, loses or shares.

fiús is used for these senses in English:

fuse (electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.
valence The combining capacity of an atom, functional group, or radical determined by the number of atoms of hydrogen with which it will unite, or the number of electrons that it will gain, lose, or share when it combines with other atoms, etc. [from 1884]

noun A safety device containing a component that melts to break an electrical circuit if the current is too high.
verb To melt or blend together, especially under heat.

noun In chemistry, the combining power of an atom, measured by the number of chemical bonds it can form or the number of electrons it gains, loses or shares.
noun In psychology, the intrinsic attractiveness or unpleasantness of something, treated as a value on a scale from positive to negative.
noun In linguistics, the number and type of arguments a verb requires, such as a subject alone or a subject and two objects.

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