safety fuse

Questions about safety fuse

What does safety fuse mean?

safety fuse means "a slow-burning fuse consisting of a tube or cord filled or saturated with combustible matter; used to ignite detonators from a distance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for safety fuse?

Close synonyms include fuse, electrical fuse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is safety fuse a common word?

safety fuse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.