cerneau — meaning in English

English meaning

• kernel noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.

Senses

cerneau is used for these senses in English:

• kernel (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
• 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.

kernel — full definition

1. noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
2. noun The core or most essential part of an idea, argument, or system.
3. noun Computing: the central part of an operating system that controls hardware and manages how programs communicate with it.

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