Kernel vs Millet - What's the difference?
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The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
(US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
(calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
(mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
(mathematics, algebra) Those elements, in the domain of a function, which the function maps to zero.
(mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
(slang) The human clitoris.
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Any of a group of various types of grass or its grains used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world.
(historical) A semi-autonomous confessional community under the Ottoman Empire, especially a non-Muslim one.
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Kernel is a related term of millet.
As a noun kernel
is the core, center, or essence of an object or system.As a proper noun millet is
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Noun
(en noun)- the kernel of an argument
- The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
- If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
- 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 .
Antonyms
* (computing) userland * (algebra) supportMeronyms
* (algebra) root, zeroDerived terms
* cokernel * kernel function * kernel hacker * kernel of truth * kernel space * kernelizationmillet
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m); ultimately from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Hyponyms
* (food grains)Coordinate terms
*Derived terms
* barnyard millet * broom corn millet * browntop millet * common millet * finger millet * foxtail millet * Guinea millet * hog millet * Japanese millet * kodo millet * little millet * milletgrass, millet grass * pearl millet * proso millet * white milletExternal links
* ("millet" on Wikipedia) * (Millet)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)page 14:
- in support for a common Serbian Orthodox Church, the one traditional institution permitted to exist under the Ottoman millet system which sought to rule subject peoples indirectly through their own religious hierarchies.
- Christians and Jews as People of the Book were organized into separate communities, or millets , defined by their common practice of the same religion, which was guaranteed as protected as long as it was primarily practised in private.