kernel
kur nuhl
- n the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell - n a single whole grain of a cereal
a kernel of corn - n the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- Working out of his family's apartment in Helsinki in 1991, he wrote the kernel of a new computer operating system called Linux that he posted.
- It provided the scaffolding within which Torvalds' kernel ("Linux") could hang.
- "We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn to an ingredient .