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kernel | os |

As a noun kernel

is the core, center, or essence of an object or system.

As a verb os is

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kernel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
    • the kernel of an argument
  • 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.
    • The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
  • (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.
    • If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
  • (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.
  • * 2014 , Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton et al'', ''Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle
    • 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) support

    Meronyms

    * (algebra) root, zero

    Derived terms

    * cokernel * kernel function * kernel hacker * kernel of truth * kernel space * kernelization

    os

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • Ordnance Survey
  • oculus sinister — left eye
  • outsize

    • Derived terms

    * (operating system) RTOS , JeOS

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (UK) an Ordnance Survey map.
    • We've got an OS of the Cuckmere area.
  • (software) operating system
    • I've decided to install two different OSes on my new laptop.
  • * 2008 , Karim Yaghmour, Jon Masters, Gilad Ben-Yossef, Building Embedded Linux Systems
    • Some vendors do now have a variant of the per-unit royalty (usually termed a “shared risk,” or similar approach), but it is not strictly the same as for those proprietary embedded OSes mentioned before
  • * 2010 , Jorge Orchilles, Microsoft Windows 7 Administrator's Reference
    • A policy-created scheduled task will be accepted by computers running client OSes as old as Windows 2000
  • * 2009 , Emmett Dulaney', CompTIA A+ Complete Review Guide
    • In a dual-boot configuration, you install two OSs on the computer (Windows XP and Windows 2000, for example).

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