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nucleus
  1. The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
  2. An initial part or version that will receive additions.
  3. (chemistry) The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons.
  4. (cytology) A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material.
  5. (neuroanatomy) A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs.
  6. (phonetics) The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “It was a medieval library serving as the nucleus of a range of activities in the fields of art, religion, history and literature.”
      “And so we now arrive at what is the nucleus of my message.”
      “Mass concrete structures are particularly vulnerable to the risk of cracking due to the thermal gradient between the nucleus of the structure and its periphery.”
nucleonics
  1. (physics) The study of nucleons, or of atomic nuclei
  2. nuclear physics or technology
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Therefore quantum nucleonics is not an approach suitable for large scale energy storage use.”
      “I rebuilt my camera for about the twentieth time and just about finished a correspondence course in nucleonics.”
      “Mr. Peter Goldring: Is this medical or is this nucleonics?”
nucleation
  1. (physics) The first stage of a phase transition in a small region.
  2. (biology) The formation of cell nuclei.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The close association of actin bundles with the intracellular virions suggests that nucleation and filamentation of actin may be virus induced.”
      “Abstract Sickle hemoglobin nucleation occurs in solution as a homogeneous process or on existing polymers in a heterogeneous process.”
      “The first step caused homogenous nucleation, while the second grew crystallites.”
nucleon
  1. One of the subatomic particles of the atomic nucleus, i.e. a proton or a neutron.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As a result of the nucleon transformations, a new proton is left behind in the nucleus and the atomic number of the atom is raised by one.”
      “An alpha particle is a heavy nucleon, which is actually the nucleus of a helium atom.”
      “The form that must be in fact, a logic relation between the properties of nucleon and the properties of fluen that form it.”
nucleant
  1. A particle or surface feature which triggers the nucleation of another substance.
nucleolus
  1. (cytology) A conspicuous, rounded body within the nucleus of a cell.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Mature red blood corpuscles are membrane bound and normally devoid of a nucleus, nucleolus, cell organelles, and inclusions.”
      “The peptoids work by disrupting a region of Candida's nucleus, known as the nucleolus, which turns out the components of its protein factories.”
      “Spermatids containing both the chromatin nucleolus and the odd chromosome, a the acrosome.”
nucleator
  1. A material that nucleates, or that aids nucleation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In addition, in the presence of wort solid material, carbon dioxide removal can be enhanced because the insolube material acts as a nucleator.”
      “They did indeed find that nucleator nanofilms have potential for frozen food applications.”
      “Over a third of the ice nuclei generated contained lead, suggesting it is a highly-efficient nucleator.”
nucleogenesis
  1. (physics) The formation of nuclei; nucleosynthesis.
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nucleate
  1. Any salt of a nucleic acid.
nuclear
nucleations
nucleoli
  1. plural of nucleolus
  2. Examples:
    1. “The less mature neurons had abundant pink cytoplasm with central to slightly eccentric nuclei and conspicuous nucleoli.”
      “Less consistently, they found excentric, small nucleoli and nuclear overlap.”
      “The bone marrow was replaced by an infiltrate of blast cells with medium-sized nuclei, multiple nucleoli, and moderate amounts of cytoplasm.”
nucleators
  1. plural of nucleator
nucleants
  1. plural of nucleant.
nucleates
  1. plural of nucleate
nuclei
  1. plural of nucleus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Those theories unite the electromagnetic and weak forces with the strong force that holds atomic nuclei together.”
      “Because of its weak interaction with atomic nuclei, the neutrino travels freely through any material object and is very difficult to observe.”
      “The basic idea of quantum computing is to store data in the nuclei of atoms by altering their orientation, thereby producing a binary scheme.”
nucleons
  1. plural of nucleon
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This particular arrangement of nucleons is unstable and so tritium readily undergoes radioactive decay to yield a helium atom.”
      “In this model, nuclei are pictured as loose aggregates of nucleons each of which, according to the quark model, has three quarks locked inside it.”
      “This might be the cause for the force that must be overcome by the two nucleons or two atoms at the fusion reaction.”
nucleuses
  1. plural of nucleus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The most greater part of the stable nucleuses contain an equal number of protons and neutrons.”
      “Many nucleuses are unstable since their energy of bond is not enough to hold together the nucleonis that constitute them.”
      “As their body parts develop and grow up, the nucleuses that generate each part of their body produce only the best thanks to the breath of life.”
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