safety fuse
noun
a slow-burning fuse for igniting detonators from a distance
an electrical fuse that protects a circuit from overloading
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How to use safety fuse in a sentence
In each room there will be one lamp with its switch to turn it on or off as desired, and a safety fuse.
Wrinkles in Electric Lighting | Vincent StephenHe did not know that we had already worked out the safety-fuse, and that every group of lights was thus protected independently.
Edison, His Life and Inventions | Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford MartinThe object of the safety fuse is to protect the motor from injury when the current becomes too strong.
A circuit breaker is more reliable than a safety fuse, because it acts quicker.
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