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Kernel can mean: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

A ripe red jalapeño cut open to show the seeds For other uses, see Seed (disambiguation). ... In chemistry, valence electrons are the electrons contained in the valence shell of an atom, and which are likely to participate in a chemical reaction through bonding with other atoms or molecules. ... A kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. ... The Linux kernel is a Unix-like operating system kernel. ... A cooperative game is a game where groups of players (coalitions) may enforce cooperative behaviour, hence the game is a competition between coalitions of players, rather than between individual players. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... For the television series, see Lilo & Stitch: The Series Lilo & Stitch is a 2002 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on June 21, 2002. ... The word kernel has several meanings in mathematics, some related to each other and some not. ... In mathematics, an integral transform is any transform T of the following form: The input of this transform is a function f, and the output is another function Tf. ... In the various branches of mathematics that fall under the heading of abstract algebra, the kernel of a homomorphism measures the degree to which the homomorphism fails to be injective. ... In linear algebra and functional analysis, the kernel of a linear operator L is the set of all operands v for which L(v) = 0. ... In linear algebra, the kernel or null space (also nullspace) of a matrix A is the set of all vectors x for which Ax = 0. ... In mathematics, the kernel of a function f may be taken to be either the equivalence relation on the functions domain that roughly expresses the idea of equivalent as far as the function f can tell, or the corresponding partition of the domain. ... In mathematics, an integral transform is any transform T of the following form: The input of this transform is a function f, and the output is another function Tf. ... A Kernel is a weighting function used in non-parametric estimation techniques. ... A stochastic kernel is the transition function of a (usually discrete) stochastic process. ... In mathematics and, in particular, functional analysis, convolution is a mathematical operator which takes two functions f and g and produces a third function that in a sense represents the amount of overlap between f and a reversed and translated version of g. ... A linear filter applies a linear operator to a time-varying input signal. ... In category theory and its applications to other branches of mathematics, kernels are a generalization of the kernels of group homomorphisms and the kernels of module homomorphisms and certain other kernels from algebra. ... The heat equation is an important partial differential equation which describes the variation of temperature in a given region over time. ... A star-shaped polygon (top). ... Kernel is a Scheme-like programming language by John N. Shutt in which all objects are first-class. ... Scheme is a multi-paradigm programming language. ... In machine learning, the kernel trick is a method for converting a linear classifier algorithm into a non-linear one by using a non-linear function to map the original observations into a higher-dimensional space; this makes a linear classification in the new space equivalent to non-linear classification...

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Kernel (computer science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1697 words)
Kernels usually implement some hardware abstraction (a set of instructions universal to all devices of a certain type) to hide the underlying complexity from the operating system and provide a clean and uniform interface to the hardware, which helps application programmers to develop programs that work with all devices of that type.
This is due in large part to the overhead of moving in and out of the kernel, a context switch, in order to move data between the various applications and servers.
The design of Linux as a monolithic kernel rather than a microkernel was the topic of a famous flame war (or what then passed for flaming) between Linus Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum.
kernel - definition of kernel in Encyclopedia (193 words)
The kernel of a seed is all that is within the outer coat of the seed, as the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument.
The usage of kernel in computing is derived from the botanical meaning, and the kernel/shell dichotomy.
The kernel of an operating system is its essential core component, such as the Linux kernel, and the shell is (nowadays, one kind of) application program that surrounds the kernel, presenting an interface to a user.
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