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Synonyms for Nucleus
ˈnu kli əs, ˈnyu-; -kliˌaɪnu·cle·us

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  1. nucleus

    Synonyms:
    core, central part, center, kernel

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. nucleus, cell nucleus, karyonnoun

    a part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

    Synonyms:
    core group, lens nucleus, core, karyon, cell nucleus, nucleus

  2. nucleusnoun

    the positively charged dense center of an atom

    Synonyms:
    core group, lens nucleus, core, karyon, cell nucleus

  3. core, nucleus, core groupnoun

    a small group of indispensable persons or things

    "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

    Synonyms:
    nitty-gritty, meat, nucleus, core group, sum, inwardness, gist, heart and soul, lens nucleus, effect, substance, nub, center, burden, centre, kernel, magnetic core, essence, core, heart, karyon, marrow, pith, cell nucleus

  4. nucleusnoun

    (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail

    Synonyms:
    core group, lens nucleus, core, karyon, cell nucleus

  5. nucleusnoun

    any histologically identifiable mass of neural cell bodies in the brain or spinal cord

    Synonyms:
    core group, lens nucleus, core, karyon, cell nucleus

  6. lens nucleus, nucleusnoun

    the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex

    Synonyms:
    lens nucleus, core, core group, karyon, cell nucleus, nucleus

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nucleusnoun

    Synonyms:
    kernel, core, centre

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. nucleusnoun

    Synonyms:
    kernel, core, heart, center

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "nucleus":

    core, nuclei, kernel, heart, nuclide

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How to use Nucleus in a sentence?

  1. Michael Vivio:

    Change is hard in a franchise organization. The nucleus of the business is an original recipe that our franchisees invest in, they got into the business because they believe in the recipe, so if that recipe changes, there are problems.

  2. Viola Davis:

    [ Actors ] are in the business of creating human beings, of finding out what makes you tick -- the psychological pathology, pathology is the study of tumors. Acting is a study of' What is your tumor ? What is that nucleus ?' And in order to do that, I felt like if I took that wig off... what it's going to force the writer to do is write the woman.

  3. Craig Corcoran:

    We’re a powerful nucleus, all of us together. There is nothing we should be afraid of, all of these countries will respond together and they will get theirs, without question.

  4. Gary Cohn:

    We had an interesting nucleus of people when I was in Trump White House -- the initial team. We were not bashful. It was a group that was willing to tell the President what he needed to know, whether he wanted to hear it or not.

  5. William James Durant:

    The family is the nucleus of civilization.


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