Noun: kernel
| Singular | kernel |
| Plural | kernels |
Sample Sentences
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the kernel of an argument
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The Linux kernel is open-source.
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The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
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If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
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Using the blunt end of one of the vibraphone mallets, he pried open her folds. With the balled end of the other, he rhythmically rolled over her kernel. [2014, Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton, et al: Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle:]
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1. In every atom is an essential kernel which remains unaltered in all ordinary chemical changes and which possesses an excess of positive charges corresponding in number to the ordinal number of the group in the periodic table to which the element belongs. [1916, Gilbert N. Lewis, “The Atom and The Molecule”, in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 38(4) p 768:]
Nouns inflected like kernel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂-nós
5. Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm
6. Proto-Germanic *kurną
7. Proto-West Germanic *korn
8. Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.
9. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
10. Proto-West Germanic *-il
11. Proto-West Germanic *kurnil
12. Old English cyrnel
13. Middle English kirnel
14. English kernel
15. From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kurną (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn + -le. Cognate with Yiddish קערנדל (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”). See: Middle English Nouns '
kernel', Old English Nouns '
cyrnel', Old Norse Nouns '
kjarni'.
Verbs referencing "kernel"
Hungarian Nouns
kernel.