quick match

See also: quickmatch

English

Alternative forms

• quickmatch

Noun

quick match (plural quick matches)

1. A pyrotechnic fuse consisting of a cotton string, coated with black powder, confined in a paper tube.

   Coordinate terms: slow match, black match

   • 1817, John Campbell, John Berkenhout, Henry Redhead Yorke, William Stevenson, Lives of the British Admirals: Containing Also a New and Accurate Naval History, from the Earliest Periods:

     Cast off all the covers of the fire barrels, and hang the quick match loose over their sides, and place leaders of quick match from the reeds into the barrels, and from thence into the vent of the chambers, [..]

   • 2012, B. J. Kosanke, Barry T. Sturman, Robert M. Winokur, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics: (and Related Subjects) - B&W, Journal of Pyrotechnics, →ISBN, page 36:

     The Recent Chinese quick match has another property that may cause it to appear to be especially fierce burning.

2. (video games) An unranked match in a format that is more casual compared to the game's skirmish and competitive modes.
   • 2002 May 16, Chris Pay, “Annoying quickmatch games”, in alt.games.redalert2‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Hi,
     Whenever I try to play a quickmatch, I always find that someone leaves the
     game basically as soon as the game has started.
     This pi**es me off, wondered if anyone else was having the same prob.

   • 2004 March 26, Pluvious, “Splinter Cell: PT freezing in Live?”, in alt.games.video.xbox‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Though the bug hinders players attempting to use the optimatch option,
     they can still readily play the game online using the quick match
     mode.

   • 2019 July 11, Günter Wallner, Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment (Data Analytics Applications)‎^[3], CRC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN:

     In quick match, players choose their characters before beginning a match, and the matchmaker assembles two opposing teams of players using these preselected characters.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quick,‎ match.

Translations

fuse

• Finnish: pikatulilanka
• German: gedeckte Stoppine f
• Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see lont (pl)