Etymograph

English

kernelization

From kernel + -ization.

A compound of kernel + -ization

Proto-Indo-European *ǵr̥h₂nóm ‘grain’

Proto-Germanic *kurną ‘seed, grain, corn’

Proto-West Germanic *kurnil ‘kernel of a nut’

Old English cyrnel ‘a kernel’

Middle English kernel

English kernel

Today it means

noun A technique for creating algorithms for fixed-parameter tractable problems, involving a preprocessing stage in which inputs to the algorithm are replaced by a smaller input, called a kernel.

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