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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 | ||||||||
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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work • (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories • the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place • a bar of magnetic material (as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 | ||||||||
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noun • an explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexity • elimination of superfluous details • the act of reducing complexity | ||||||||
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GIST which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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GIST
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| The Guardian Quick24 Sep 2013 | Across 11 | |
| New York Times26 Apr 1981 | Across 88 | |
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