CRUX meaning: Essential point or central element

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word crux:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

crux, the crux: Merriam-Webster
Crux, crux: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
Crux, crux: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
crux: Collins English Dictionary
Crux, crux: Vocabulary.com
Crux, crux: Wordnik
the crux: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Crux, crux: Wiktionary
crux: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
crux: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
crux: Infoplease Dictionary
Crux, crux: Dictionary.com
crux: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
CRUX, Crux (Chinese astronomy), Crux (climbing), Crux (comics), Crux (constellation), Crux (disambiguation), Crux (literary), Crux (online newspaper), Crux, The Crux (Hurt album), The Crux (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Crux: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
crux: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
crux: Rhymezone
Crux: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
crux: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Crux: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
crux: FreeDictionary.org
crux: Mnemonic Dictionary
Crux: TheFreeDictionary.com
crux: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
crux: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Crux (constellation), crux: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Crux (constellation), Crux: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Crux (constellation), crux: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

CRUX: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)

crux: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

crux: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Crux)

▸ noun:  The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
▸ noun:  The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
▸ noun:  A puzzle or difficulty.
▸ noun:  (climbing) The hardest point of a climb.
▸ noun:  (heraldry) A cross on a coat of arms.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.

Opposite:

gist, kernel, pith, heart, essence, center, core, nucleus, centerpiece, core idea

Types:

heart, center, core, kernel, pith, gist, more...

Phrases:

crux australis, crux ansata, crux of the matter, hypericum crux andrae, crux of heart, more...

Adjectives:

real, very, whole, great, textual, famous, main, latin, notorious, major, true

Colors:

midnight blue, charcoal, indigo, deep purple, burgundy, more...

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