kjerne

noun

1. a core, pit, seed (the central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds)
2. a center or core (innermost part of something)
3. a cell nucleus, nucleus (large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material)
4. a nucleus (cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs)
5. a nucleus (innermost and brightest part of a comet)
6. an atomic nucleus (a nucleus of an atom; consisting of protons and neutrons, surrounded by an electron cloud)
7. heartwood (the wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch)
8. a core (the interior of a workpiece or tool, especially when it is of a different material than the rest)
9. a core (the portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting)
10. a mother-of-pearl (the hard pearly inner layer of certain mollusk shells)
11. a core (the innermost non-luminous part of a flame)
12. a hard soap or curd soap (a kind of soap, with a hard texture and common salt added to the liquid soap mass)
13. a core or essence (the most important part of a thing)
14. a core or spirit (the soul of a person or other creature)
15. a person being the backbone of a group, community or society
16. a musical core (the central, most prevalent sound)
17. the actual content; a deeper meaning
18. a head (a morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member)
19. a nucleus (the central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel)
20. a churn (a vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter)