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ker⋅nel

  [kur-nl] noun, verb, -neled, -nel⋅ing or (especially British) -nelled, -nel⋅ling.
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–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: His leadership is the kernel of the organization.
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)
8. to enclose as a kernel.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME kirnel, OE cyrnel, dim. of corn seed, corn 1

Related forms:
ker⋅nel⋅less, adjective
ker⋅nel⋅ly, adjective
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ker·nel   (kûr'nəl)   
n.  
  1. A grain or seed, as of a cereal grass, enclosed in a husk.
  2. The inner, usually edible seed of a nut or fruit stone.
  3. The most material and central part; the core: "that hard kernel of gaiety that never breaks" (Evelyn Waugh).

[Middle English, from Old English cyrnel; see gə-no- in Indo-European roots.]
ker'neled adj.
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Kerneled

Ker"neled\, Kernelled \Ker"nelled\, a. Having a kernel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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