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KERNEL
- to envelop like the inner part of a nut [v KERNELLED or KERNELED, KERNELLING or KERNELING, KERNELS]
- the center part of a nut
- a fruit seed
- whole seed of a cereal a kernel of corn
- central or essential part germ like many stereotypes à this one too contains some kernels of truth S. M. Lyman
- to envelop as a kernel (the inner part of a nut) [v KERNELED, KERNELING, KERNELLED, KERNELLING, KERNELS]
- subset of the elements of one set (as a group) that a function (as a homomorphism) maps onto an identity element of another set