slow match

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   match or fuse made to burn slowly and evenly

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Questions about slow match

What does slow match mean?

slow match means "match or fuse made to burn slowly and evenly".

Is slow match a common word?

slow match is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.