núcleo — 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.
• nucleus noun The central, positively charged part of an atom, made of protons and neutrons.

Senses

núcleo is used for these senses in English:

• core The center or inner part of a space or area.
• 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).
• 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 (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.

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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