Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A renewed or repeated melting or fusion.
  • noun The act of pouring back; a reflowing.

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

  • noun New or repeated melting, as of metals.
  • noun Restoration.

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

  • noun New or repeated melting, as of metals.
  • noun restoration

Etymologies

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re- +‎ fusion

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Examples

  • Spock is balanced between refusion and oblivion—and I can't even help him!

    THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK VONDA N.MCINTYRE 1990

  • How the interference might affect the refusion, no one even attempted to speculate.

    THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK VONDA N.MCINTYRE 1990

  • "It would be most fascinating to attend the refusion," she said.

    THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK VONDA N.MCINTYRE 1990

  • The procedure you suggest is called fal tor pan, the refusion.

    THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK VONDA N.MCINTYRE 1990

  • I propose that a process of refusion of the internalized self and object images does occur in the narcissistic personality at a level of development at which ego boundaries have already become stable.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • The emanation of all beings from the soul of the universe, and their refusion in it, which were tenets closely connected with this system of dogmas, border on a species of Pantheism, and are liable to all the difficulties attendant upon that doctrine.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

  • The ugly blackened scar was gone now, as were all the others, the ruptures mended by the molecular refusion of the ship’s duranium composite skin.

    Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009

  • The ugly blackened scar was gone now, as were all the others, the ruptures mended by the molecular refusion of the ship’s duranium composite skin.

    Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009

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