Kernel

Kernel may refer to:

Business

• Kernel Holding, an agri-business company

Computer science

• Kernel (computing), the central component of most operating systems
  • The Linux kernel, from GNU/Linux operating systems
  • The Windows 9x kernel, used in Windows 95, 98 and ME
  • The Windows NT kernel, used in all Windows NT systems including Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7
  • XNU, from the Mac OS X operating systems
• Kernel (programming language), a Scheme-like language
• Kernel trick, in machine learning and statistics
• Kernel, a function that executes on OpenCL devices
• Kernel in GPGPU

Literature

• Kernel (Lilo & Stitch), experiment 014 from the Lilo & Stitch cartoon series
• Kernel Fleck, a character in the Demonata series of books

Mathematics

• Kernel (algebra)
• Kernel (category theory)
• Kernel (linear operator)
• Kernel (mathematics)
• Kernel (matrix)
• Kernel (statistics)
• Kernel smoother, a statistical technique
• Convolution kernel, as of a linear filter
• Heat kernel
• Polygon kernel
• Positive definite kernel
• Stochastic kernel
• Kernel of an integral transform
• Kernel of a function
• The kernel in the cooperative game, in game theory

Science

• A seed of some plants
• Palm kernel
• Atomic nucleus

See also

• KERNAL, Commodore's 8-bit OS software
• Colonel