cold fusion

Noun

 * 1) A hypothetical form of nuclear fusion not requiring the usual immensely high temperatures; nuclear fusion at or near room temperature.
 * 2) A method of synthesizing superheavy elements, where the product nucleus has a relatively low excitation energy of ~10 to 20 MeV.

Usage notes
Many authors of books about cold fusion (that is, nuclear fusion at or near room temperature) prefer to use the term "LENR" (low-energy nuclear reactions) rather than "cold fusion".

Synonyms

 * (fusion near room temperature): LENR

Coordinate terms

 * hot fusion

Translations

 * Arabic: اِنْدِمَاج بَارِد
 * Belarusian: хало́дны я́дзерны сі́нтэз
 * Bulgarian: студ́ен термоя́дрен си́нтез
 * Catalan: fusió freda
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 冷核聚變, 冷聚變, 冷融合
 * Czech: studená fúze
 * Danish: kold fusion
 * Dutch: koude kernfusie
 * Finnish: kylmäfuusio
 * French:
 * German: kalte Fusion
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: fusione fredda
 * Japanese: 常温核融合
 * Macedonian: студена фузија
 * Polish: zimna fuzja
 * Portuguese: fusão a frio
 * Russian: холо́дный термоя́дерный си́нтез, холо́дный си́нтез
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хладна фузија
 * Roman: hladna fuzija
 * Slovak: studená fúzia
 * Slovene: hladna fuzija
 * Spanish: fusión fría
 * Swedish: kall fusion
 * Ukrainian: холо́дний си́нтез, холо́дний я́дерний си́нтез