Look up: crux

1. Crux
   [literary] Crux (Latin for "cross", "gallow", or "t-shape") is a term applied by palaeographers, textual critics, bibliographers, and literary scholars to a point of significant corruption in a literary text. More serious than a simple slip of the pen or typographical error, a crux (probably...
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2. Crux
   [comics] ==Plot synopsis== The main story arc centered on Capricia and the other Atlanteans efforts to revive the remaining Atlanteans still in stasis and to find out what happened to the human race, and perhaps to a latter extent how to go through `transition` themselves. The group go throu...
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3. CRUX
   CRUX is a lightweight, i686-optimized GNU/Linux distribution targeted at experienced GNU/Linux users and delivered by a tar.gz-based package system with BSD-style initscripts. It also utilizes a ports system to install and upgrade applications. The current release is 2.7.1. Although crux is the Latin word for "cross," the choice of the name "CR...
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4. crux
   [n] - the most important point
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5. Crux
   English name: The Cross. Genitive name: Crucis. Visibility: Never visible from the UK. See TABLE 20: THE CONSTELLATIONS.
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6. crux
   , or Latin cross, whose base stem is longer than the other three arms Category: Religion and philosophy • , in form of the Greek letter tau, sometimes called St.Anthony`s cross. Category: Religion and philosophy • , named from the Roman decussis or symbol of the numeral 10, a...
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7. Crux
   Crux (krŭks) noun ; plural E. Cruxes (-ĕz), Latin Cruces (kru'sēz). [ Latin , cross, torture, trouble.] Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain. Dr. Sheridan. « The perpetual <...
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8. crux
   A junction or crossing. ... Synonym: cross. ... Origin: L. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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9. crux
   crux of the matter noun the most important point
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10. Crux
    • (n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
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11. Crux
    constellation lying at about 12 hours 30 minutes right ascension (the coordinate on the celestial sphere analogous to longitude on the Earth) and 60° ... [7 related articles]
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12. crux
    crux 1. An essential, basic, crucial, or pivotal point. 2. The basic, central, or critical point or feature; such as, 'The crux of the matter.' 'The crux of an argument.' 3. A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.
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13. Crux
    Crux (s) is the smallest of the 88 modern constellations, but is one of the most distinctive. Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross. ==Visibility== Crux is easily visible from the southern hemisphere at practically a...
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14. Crux
    (abbr. Cru, gen. Crucis) The Cross; a tiny but brilliant southern constellation invisible from most of the populated northern hemisphere. Surrounded on three sides by Centaurus, with Musca to the south, it is well seen only south of the Tropic of Cancer. Crux contains the most f...
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15. Crux
    Crux (krooks) [Lat.,=cross], small but brilliant southern constellation whose four most prominent members form a Latin cross, the famous Southern Cross. The long arm of the cross, terminating in the brightest member, Acrux (Alpha Crucis), points almost directly at the south celestial pole. Two other...
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16. crux
    Type: Term Pronunciation: krŭks, krū′sēz Definitions: 1. A junction or crossing. Synonyms: cross1
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17. Crux
    [Chinese astronomy] The modern constellation Crux is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based ...
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