CRUX Synonyms
There is 1 hypernym of the word crux. (close relations)
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| core | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||
noun • a small group of indispensable persons or things • an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality • the center of an object • the central part of the Earth • the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience • a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill • the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work • (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories • the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place • a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil verb • remove the core or center from | ||||||
| gist | nounn | |||||
noun • the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work • the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | ||||||
| crux australis | nounn | |||||
noun • a small conspicuous constellation in the Southern Hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus | ||||||
| crux of the matter | nounn | |||||
noun • the most important point | ||||||
| southern cross | nounn | |||||
noun • a small conspicuous constellation in the Southern Hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus | ||||||
