ydin — meaning in English

English meaning

• atomic adjective Relating to atoms.
• core noun The central or most essential part of something.
• crux noun The most important or decisive point of a matter.
• gist noun The main point or essential meaning of something longer or more complicated.
• heart noun The muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally seen as the seat of emotion.
• kernel noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
• meat noun The flesh of an animal used as food.
• midst noun The middle part of something, whether a place, a group, or a situation.
• nitty-gritty noun The most basic and practical details of a matter, reached once the general discussion is out of the way.
• nuclear adj Relating to the nucleus of an atom, or to energy released by splitting or joining atomic nuclei.
• nucleus noun The central, positively charged part of an atom, made of protons and neutrons.
• pith noun The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and trees.
• quick adj Moving or happening fast.
• skeleton noun The framework of bones supporting a human or animal body.
• substance noun A particular kind of physical matter with distinct properties.
• thrust noun A sudden strong push or lunge forward.

Senses

ydin is used for these senses in English:

• atomic Employing or relating to nuclear energy or processes.
• core The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
• core (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
• core (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
• gist (countable) The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.
• heart (figurative) The centre, essence, or core.
• kernel (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
• kernel (mathematics, algebra, loosely, of a morphism f between algebraic structures) The set of elements of the domain of f which are mapped to an identity element.

atomic — full definition

1. adjective Relating to atoms.
2. adjective Relating to nuclear energy or nuclear weapons.
3. adjective So small or basic that it cannot be broken down any further.

core — full definition

1. noun The central or most essential part of something.
2. noun The hard central part of certain fruits, containing the seeds.
3. adj Forming the most important or fundamental part of something.
4. verb To remove the core from a piece of fruit.

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