Vocabulary Word
Word: kernel
Definition: central or vital part; core; whole seed (as of corn)
Definition: central or vital part; core; whole seed (as of corn)
Sentences Containing 'kernel'
We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness.
The ear of wheat -LRB- in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope -RRB- should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain -LRB- granum from gerendo, bearing -RRB- is not all that it bears.
These he peddles still, prompting God and disgracing man, bearing for fruit his brain only, like the nut its kernel.
The system provided a micro-kernel that implemented a distributed name space and messaging protocol, through which services were accessed.
The Helios nucleus is composed of the kernel, libraries, loader service and the processor manager service.
The Helios kernel is effectively a micro-kernel, providing a minimal abstraction above the hardware with most services implemented as non-privileged server processes.
The system library provides the basic kernel interface, converting C function calls into messages sent to and from the kernel.
Once the kernel is loaded, these processes are bootstrapped, and they integrate the newly running node into the Helios network.
The kernel includes a name resolver, and manages a local cache of routes to previously resolved names.
The name is a diminutive of the Italian "amaro", meaning "bitter," indicating the distinctive flavour lent by the "mandorla amara"--the bitter almond or the drupe kernel.
The MuPAD kernel is bundled with Scientific Notebook and Scientific Workplace.
The operator formula_28 has the properties :
Fractional kernel.
In this case the Cauchy kernel is "G"("x"−"y").
This gives rise to a Cauchy kernel, which is the fundamental solution to this Dirac operator.
With this kernel much of what is described in the first section of this entry carries through for invertible Atiyah–Singer–Dirac operators.
In systems such as CICS, storage violations are sometimes detected (by the CICS kernel) by the use of "signatures", which can be tested to see if they have been overlaid.
A homebrew multi-tasking kernel allowed users to have several Minuet windows active at the same time.
Flashcache is a disk cache component of the Linux kernel, initially developed by Facebook since April 2010, and released as open source in 2011.
Since by definition, formula_91, the vector formula_92 of all ones is in the kernel.
Harvested rice is subject to milling to remove the husk, which encloses the kernel.
The resulting brown rice retains the brawn layer around the kernel.
In the case of regular milled rice, the hull and the brawn are removed and polished in a polishing machine, producing a polished kernel.
AmigaOS is a single-user operating system based on a preemptive multitasking kernel, called Exec.
The function of Kickstart is comparable to the BIOS plus the main operating system kernel in IBM PC compatibles.
Exec is the multi-tasking kernel of AmigaOS.
Normally, this would be very wasteful when addresses are used at both ends of the possible range, but the page table for applications is itself stored in the kernel's paged memory.
The contents are mostly Linux kernel files or boot loader files, depending on the boot loader, most commonly (on Linux) LILO or GRUB.
The BeagleBone Black also ships with Linux kernel 3.8, upgraded from the original BeagleBone's Linux kernel 3.2, allowing the BeagleBone Black to take advantage of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM).
The Allwinner A1X kernel source code is available at https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi.
Using our FUSE module you can also mount guest filesystems on the host.
libguestfs is implemented using the Kernel-based Virtual Machine for the Linux kernel.
Releases occur irregularly according to the progress of the Linux kernel and open source programs.
The Direct Rendering Manager be compiled into the Linux kernel or loaded via the standard module interface.
It consists of two in-kernel drivers (released as kernel modules on Linux), a generic drm driver, and another which has specific support for the GPUs.
Linux kernel version 3.11, which was released on 2013-09-02, included major changes to the direct rendering manager.
As of September 2013, freedreno has been adopted into mainline Linux, and will be part of Linux kernel 3.12.
It was included in the Linux kernel since version 2.4.3.
The real-time kernel, first included with Ubuntu Studio 8.04, was modified for intensive audio, video or graphics work.
The 8.10 Ubuntu Studio release lacks this real-time kernel.
10.04 Ubuntu Studio, in contrast, does not include the real-time kernel by default. As of version 10.10 of the Ubuntu Studio, the real-time kernel is no longer available in the repositories.
As of Ubuntu Studio 12.04, the default kernel is linux-lowlatency, which in essence is a generic Ubuntu Linux kernel, with a tweaked configuration to allow for stable operation for audio applications at lower latencies.
The semantics stabilized as of version 2.5.59, and they are present in the 2.6.x stable kernel series.
LS-SVMs are a class of kernel-based learning methods.
Here, formula_41 is an formula_42 identity matrix, and formula_43 is the kernel matrix defined by formula_44.
For the kernel function "K"(•, •) one typically has the following choices:
where formula_46, formula_51, formula_52, formula_53 and formula_54 are constants.
The scale parameters formula_51, formula_52 and formula_53 determine the scaling of the inputs in the polynomial, RBF and MLP kernel function.
This scaling is related to the bandwidth of the kernel in statistics, where it is shown that the bandwidth is an important parameter of the generalization behavior of a kernel method.
The stochastic discount factor is sometimes referred to as the pricing kernel.
This name comes from the fact that if the expectation
is written as an integral, then formula_3 can be interpreted as the "kernel function" in an integral transform.
Conversely, the kernel of any semigroup homomorphism is a semigroup congruence.
A nuclear congruence on "S" is one which is the kernel of an endomorphism of "S".