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CRUX Synonyms

There are 5 synonyms of the word crux. (exact relations)
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• (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories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

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