Kern
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See also: kern
English
Alternative forms
- (surname): Keirn
Etymology
The unincorporated community in Missouri is named after Robert Kern. The Kern River is named after Edward Kern.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /kɝn/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɜːn/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
Proper noun
Kern
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States
- the Kern River in California, USA
Derived terms
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Middle High German kerne, kern, from Old High German kerno, from Proto-Germanic *kernô (“core, kernel”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Kern m (strong, genitive Kernes or Kerns, plural Kerne)
- (also mathematics) kernel
- grain
- core, nucleus
- (physics, chemistry) nucleus
- pit, pip, stone (of a fruit)
Declension
Declension of Kern
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- des Pudels Kern
- Kernbaustein
- Kernbindungsenergie
- Kernbrennstoff
- Kernenergie
- Kernfamilie
- Kernfusion
- Kernfusionsanlage
- Kernfusionsreaktor
- Kerngedanke
- Kerngehäuse
- Kernholz
- Kernikterus
- Kernisomer
- Kernkraft
- Kernkraftwerk
- Kernphysik
- Kernpunkt
- Kernreaktion
- Kernreaktor
- Kernreaktorunfall
- Kernresonanz
- Kernresonanzspektroskopie
- Kernschmelze
- Kernspaltung
- Kernspintomogramm
- Kernspintomograph
- Kernspintomographie
- Kernstück
- Kerntechnik
- Kernthema
- Kernverschmelzung
- Kernwaffe
- Kernwaffentest
- Kernwaffenversuch
Further reading
- “Kern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Kern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Kern” in Duden online
Kern on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Noun
Kern m (plural Kerne, diminutive Kernche)
Further reading
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kern m pers (female equivalent Kernová)
- a male surname
Further reading
- “Kern”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024
Slovene
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kȇrn m anim
- a surname