English-Portuguese translations for kernel

• núcleo
  O programa RAFAEL é um programa importante e constitui o núcleo da intervenção comunitária a favor da cultura.The Raphael Programme is an important one and it is the kernel of Community activity on behalf of culture.
  Por outro lado, em Março, o Conselho tomou a iniciativa de enviar a Tirana uma missão de exploração, que se tornou o núcleo da missão consultiva para a Albânia no âmbito da coordenação da OSCE.The Council also took the initiative in March to send an exploratory mission to Tirana which became the kernel of the consultative mission for Albania in the framework of the OSCE's coordination.
• cerne
• caroço
• grão
• kernel
• miolo

Definition of kernel

• The core, center, or essence of an object or system
• The central part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed
• The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums
• The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components
• The core engine of any complex software system
• A function used to define an integral transform
• A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value
• ''For a category with zero morphisms'': the equalizer of a given morphism and the zero morphism which is parallel to that given morphism
• The human clitoris
• The nucleus and electrons of an atom excluding its valence electrons

Examples

• the kernel of an argument
• The Linux kernel is open-source
• The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation
• If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set

Related words

• kernelization
• microkernel
• exokernel
• kernelled
• kernelize
• unikernel
• kernel of truth
• kernel sentence
• kernel of a homomorphism