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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of being fused or melted by heating.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being fused, or melted or liquefied by the application of heat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective CapabIe of being melted or liquefied.
  • adjective any alloy of different metals capable of being easily fused, especially an alloy of five parts of bismuth, three of lead, and two of tin, which melts at a temperature below that of boiling water.
  • adjective (Steam Boiler) a piece of easily fusible alloy, placed in one of the sheets and intended to melt and blow off the steam in case of low water.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Able to be fused or melted.
  • noun Any substance that can be fused or melted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being melted and fused

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fuse +‎ -ible

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