Fuzz

/fʌz/ · noun

Meaning

A frizzy mass of hair or fibre..

Definitions by Sense

1. A frizzy mass of hair or fibre.
2. Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image.
3. (computing) The random data used in fuzz testing.
4. A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument.
5. A state of befuddlement.
6. Fuzziness, vagueness.
7. (transitive) To make fuzzy.
8. (intransitive) To become fuzzy.

Example Sentences

His cheeks were like peaches, with much the same sort of fuzz over them.

Once the eaglets are born—tiny balls of white fuzz—the adult eagles prove that birds can be as protective and solicitous of their young as humans.

...scientific advances happen more often at the frontier of representation, at the edge of resolution where an image dissolves into fuzz and blur.

"Fuzz testing" or "fuzzing" is a technique for software testing that provides random data ("fuzz") to the inputs of a program.

This gives a good soft clipping effect and a good fuzz sound.

I think I'm in a fuzz, and don't know what I ſay, I never ſaw the like.

So I'm in a fuzz of not knowing what to do

Or maybe my mind was just fuzzed with the drink.

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Word Forms

• fuzzes
• fuzzing
• fuzzed

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