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fuse

electrical safety device
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Summary

fuse is an electrical element[1]. fuse draws 4,836 Wikipedia views per month (electrical element category, ranking #4 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: passive electronic component[3]
  • Subclass of: power resistor[4], sacrificial part[5]
  • Has use: overcurrent protection[6]
  • Commons category: Electrical fuses[7]
  • Said to be the same as: Q16137204[8], fuse element[9]
  • Opposite of: Antifuse[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fuses[11]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[12], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[14]
  • Has characteristic: breaking capacity[15], rated voltage[16]
  • Different from: Fusible[17], fuse[18], circuit breaker[19]
  • MCN code: 8536.10.00[20]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]

Why It Matters

fuse has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] fuse is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Q24491868. wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Im tau · 2026-08-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Smeltveiligheid.jpg, Hochspannungssicherung.jpg, Electrical Fuse (aka).jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Image: Tektronixoscilloscope442backfuse-ccbysawikipedia.jpg"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → Fusible, fuse, circuit breaker
    Has use → overcurrent protection
    Aliases → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ Yso id: 19503, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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