Definitions for kernel

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kernel ker·nel

Spelling: [kur-nl]

IPA: /ˈkɜr nl/

Kernel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in kernel (eeklnr).

Definitions for kernel

noun

1. the softer, usually edible part contained in the shell of a nut or the stone of a fruit.
2. the body of a seed within its husk or integuments.
3. a whole seed grain, as of wheat or corn.
4. South Atlantic States. the pit or seed of a peach, cherry, plum, etc.
5. the central or most important part of anything; essence; gist; core:
6. Mathematics. the set of elements that a given function from one set to a second set maps into the identity of the second set.
7. Also called rumpf. Physical Chemistry. the remainder of an atom after the valence electrons have been removed.

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose as a kernel.

Origin of kernel

before 1000; Middle English kirnel, Old English cyrnel, diminutive of corn seed, corn¹

Examples for kernel

Its kernel is very bitter, and it is said to be a specific against fevers.

Mark strangled over a kernel of corn and stared, teary-eyed, at Billy.

Meanwhile, a tiny rebellion is brewing—the kernel, it seems, for the future Rebel Alliance.

Without that discipline they would have been a shell without a kernel.

It is that kernel of personality which inclines him in this direction or that.

However, with our story, to give it dramatic tension, it was almost based on a kernel of truth.

Other experiments show that the Praeparturien shell and kernel are about equal.

The kernel at the center of Downton Abbey is that ever-appropriate sigh: “Kids these days!”

If the kernel is withered, no marriage at all is prophesied.

"It's really your fault," Veda wails, and Mildred recognizes the kernel of truth in her accusation.