English-French translations for nucleus

• noyau
  Une solution envisageable consisterait à créer un petit noyau d' observateurs à long terme. A small nucleus of long-term observers may be able to offer a solution here.
  Ensemble, ces systèmes d'échange de quotas pourraient former le noyau d'un futur marché mondial évolutif du carbone. Together, these trading systems could form the nucleus of an evolving future global carbon market.
  Ce n'est un secret pour personne que les défenseurs d'une politique européenne de répression y voient le noyau d'une politique frontalière européenne. It is no secret that apologists for a European policy of repression see this as the nucleus of a European border police force.
• noyau atomique
• nucléus

Definition of nucleus

• The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled
• The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons
• A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs

Examples

• This collection will form the nucleus of a new library.

Related words

• hypernucleus
• antinucleus
• nucleus accumbens
• atomin) nucleus
• atomic nucleus
• mirror nucleus
• cell nucleus
• active galactic nucleus
• caudate nucleus