
1) Anything very puzzling 2) Basic point 3) Basic story 4) Central idea 5) Central point 6) Comic by Mark Waid 7) Constellation 8) Core 9) Constellation, Cross 10) Constellation, Southern Cross 11) Critical point 12) Crucial point 13) Crux australis 14) Decisive stage 15) Difficult problem 16) Essence
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1) Centre 2) Core 3) Essence 4) Gist 5) Heart 6) Heart of the matter 7) Meat 8) Nub 9) Pivot 10) Tau
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CRUX is a lightweight, x86-64-optimized Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users and delivered by a tar.xz-based package system with BSD-style initscripts. It also utilizes a ports system to install and upgrade applications. The current release is 3.1. Although crux is the Latin word for `cross,` the choice of the name `CRUX` its...
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[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 on the work of Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit mi...
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[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 deriving from Latin crux interpretum = `crossroad...
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• (n.) Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
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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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(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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English name: The Cross. Genitive name: Crucis. Visibility: Never visible from the UK. See TABLE 20: THE CONSTELLATIONS.
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A junction or crossing. ... Synonym: cross. ... Origin: L. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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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
crux of New Testament chronologists.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: krŭks, krū′sēz Definitions: 1. A junction or crossing. Synonyms: cross1
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[
n] - the most important point
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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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The most technically difficult section of a climb.
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The hardest part of a climb.
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Latin word meaning cross, is the hard bit of a route.
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crux of the matter noun the most important point
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a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point: The crux of the trial was his whereabouts at the time of the murder. · a cross. · something that torments by its puzzling nature; a perplexing difficulty.
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The hardest part of a climb. The crux can appear anywhere along the climb, sometimes it’s the first move.
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The toughest move or sequence of moves on a climb.
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