noyau — meaning in English

English meaning

• core noun The central or most essential part of something.
• head noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
• kernel noun The soft, edible part inside a nut or seed, once the hard shell or husk is removed.
• newel noun Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.
• nucleus noun The central, positively charged part of an atom, made of protons and neutrons.
• pit noun A hole or hollow in the ground.
• stone noun A hard natural material, or a piece of it, such as rock or a pebble.

Senses

noyau is used for these senses in English:

• core The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
• core A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
• 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.
• head (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
• 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.
• pit A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
• stone (botany) The central part of some fruits, particularly drupes; consisting of the seed and a hard endocarp layer.

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.

head — full definition

1. noun The part of the body containing the brain, eyes, and mouth.
2. noun A person in charge; a leader.
3. verb To be in charge of, or to move in a particular direction.
4. adj Chief or foremost in rank.

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