Usually means: Core functions in operating systems.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. kernels: Merriam-Webster
  2. kernels: Collins English Dictionary
  3. kernels: Vocabulary.com
  4. Kernels, kernel's, kernels: Wordnik
  5. kernels: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. kernels: Wiktionary
  7. kernels: Dictionary.com
  8. kernels: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Kernels: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kernels: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kernels: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kernels: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (kernel)

noun:  The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
noun:  (botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
noun:  (botany) A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
noun:  (botany, US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
noun:  A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
noun:  (computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
noun:  (computing) The core engine of any complex software system.
noun:  (programming) The simplified input to an algorithm that has undergone kernelization.
noun:  (calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
noun:  (mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
noun:  (mathematics, linear algebra, group theory, functional analysis) For a given function (especially a linear transformation between vector spaces or homomorphism between groups), the set of elements in the domain which are mapped to zero; (formally) given f : X → Y, the set {x ∈ X : f(x) = 0}.
noun:  (mathematics, category theory) For a category with zero morphisms: the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism.
noun:  (mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
noun:  (slang) The human clitoris.
noun:  (chemistry) The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons.
verb:  To enclose within a kernel
verb:  To crenellate
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