Definitions for nuclei

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nuclei nu·cle·i

Spelling: [noo-klee-ahy, nyoo-]

IPA: /ˈnu kliˌaɪ, ˈnyu-/

Nuclei is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in nuclei (ceilnu).

Definitions for nuclei

noun

1. plural of nucleus.
2. a central part about which other parts are grouped or gathered; core:
3. Biology. a specialized, usually spherical mass of protoplasm encased in a double membrane, and found in most living eukaryotic cells, directing their growth, metabolism, and reproduction, and functioning in the transmission of genic characters.
4. Physics. the positively charged mass within an atom, composed of neutrons and protons, and possessing most of the mass but occupying only a small fraction of the volume of the atom.
5. Anatomy. a mass of nerve cells in the brain or spinal cord in which nerve fibers form connections.
6. Also called condensation nucleus. Meteorology. a particle upon which condensation of water vapor occurs to form water drops or ice crystals.
7. Chemistry. a fundamental arrangement of atoms, as the benzene ring, that may occur in many compounds by substitution of atoms without a change in structure.
8. Astronomy. the condensed portion of the head of a comet.
9. Phonetics. the central, most prominent segment in a syllable, consisting of a vowel, diphthong, or vowellike consonant, as the a- sound in cat or the l- sound in bottled; peak. the most prominent syllable in an utterance or stress group; tonic syllable.

Origin of nuclei

Latin nucleī, nominative plural of nucleus; see nucleus

Examples for nuclei

It is plain that all of them are the nuclei of old volcanoes.

Sporidia oblong, elliptical, with two or three minute nuclei.

Natural groups, as Mr. Galton remarks, have nuclei but no outlines.

Leaving these nuclei, I will now pass on to the formation of the layers.

Their nuclei are of the same character as the nuclei in the yolk.

The nuclei at the base of these cylindrical cells are not all alike.

Two nuclei from a nest which appear to be in the act of division.

A genus said to be established upon the nuclei of two land shells.

But though the energy is inexhaustible, the supply of nuclei isn't.

Then the rupture of the crust and the emergence of the nuclei of continents.