A nucleus is often called the brain, or control center, of a eukaryotic cell (that is, a cell with a nucleus).
A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
Noun
a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction
Noun
any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord
Noun
a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
Noun
the positively charged dense center of an atom
Noun
(astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail
n.
A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which
matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or
material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
n.
The body or the head of a comet.
n.
An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.
n.
A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats.
n.
A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan,
distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in
refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or
less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through
which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended
a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell
division, under Division.
n.
The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell.
n.
The central part around which additional growths are
added, as of an operculum.
n.
A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs,
in Tunicata and some mollusks.
Nucleus
It must contain within itself a nucleus of truth.2.
A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively.
Usage Examples
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Other Usage ExamplesIt is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
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