(n.) The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. See Illust. of Endocarp.
(n.) A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.
(n.) A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
(n.) The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.
(v. i.) To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(2) The presence of the positive-off diagonal of the second-order kernel of respiratory control of heart rate is an indication of an escape-like phenomenon in the system.
(3) A method of TLC densitometry was developed to determine the active ingredients (Wuweizisu A, B, C; Wuweizichun A, B; Wuweizi ester and schisanhenol) in Schisandra kernels.
(4) Mutant plants are characterized by reduced height, defective yellow striping on leaves, and aborted kernels on ears.
(5) The system identification results are in the form of first- and second-order frequency kernels, which are related to temporal kernels that appear in the Wiener functional series.
(6) The scattering kernel that was measured and reported in the first paper is now examined more carefully.
(7) The theoretical relationships between various types and components of dose-spread kernels relative to photon attenuation coefficients are explored.
(8) Only a single slice of the estimated experimental second-order kernel was used in identifying the cascade model.
(9) A set of vocalization was used to calculate the kernels of the transformation, and these kernels subserved to predict the responses of the cell to a different set of vocalizations.
(10) The answers are sums of the influence or kernel functions of the integral wherever the sum is positive, and zero elsewhere.
(11) The appearance-disappearance PERG had a triphasic first-order kernel and a biphasic second-order kernel.
(12) A comparison of the time course of this time-locked response with that of the kernel prediction indicated that nonlinear temporal effects of order higher than two are unimportant.
(13) There is serious fun to be had browsing its huge bottled beer menu, which runs the gamut of new wave UK breweries, including Kernel, Wild Beer, Hardknott, Camden, and their US inspirations, such as Left Hand and Magic Hat.
(14) Wheat kernels with visible Fusarium-damage, naturally infected, have been examined with histochemical techniques to observe mycelium growth inside kernels and change in kernels cells.
(15) Larger spots of light or a steady annular illumination transformed the slow horizontal cell kernel into a fast kernel similar to those of the receptors.
(16) At no stage of development, wheat alpha-amylase was inhibited by the albumin fractions from the mature kernel.
(17) For all the bad blood of the past year, for all the talk of betrayal, there remains the kernel of a progressive consensus.
(18) The physical parameters tested were: test weight (TW), endosperm texture (TE), pearling index (IP), 1000 kernel wt (W 1000), infrared reflectance (NIR) and color (Ref).
(19) A total of 600 Bosbek day-old broiler chicks (Akropong Farms, Kumasi, Ghana) were randomly allotted to six dietary treatments containing 0, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, and 15% palm kernel cake (PKC), respectively.
(20) Analysis by kernel density estimation revealed a bimodal distribution of MRs with an antimode of 11.6.
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Definition:
(n.) A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe.