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- DictionaryCrux/krʌks/
- 1. the smallest constellation (the Cross or Southern Cross), but the most familiar one to observers in the southern hemisphere. It contains the bright star Acrux, the ‘Jewel Box’ star cluster, and most of the Coalsack nebula.
adjective
- 1. used with preceding Greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation Crux: "the star Beta Crucis"
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1. : a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question. The origin of the word is a scholarly crux. 2. : an essential point requiring resolution or resolving an outcome. 3. : a main or central feature (as of an argument) … he discarded all but the essential cruxes of his argument. Carl Van Doren. Did you know?
THE CRUX definition: 1. the most important or serious part of a matter, problem, or argument: 2. the most important or…. Learn more.
The essential point or problem is the crux. People are always trying to get to the crux of a matter or the crux of a problem, while others try to distract them. The noun crux is often followed by the phrases "of the matter" or "of the problem."
Crux definition: a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point. See examples of CRUX used in a sentence.
THE CRUX meaning: 1. the most important or serious part of a matter, problem, or argument: 2. the most important or…. Learn more.
The crux of a problem or argument is the most important or difficult part of it which affects everything else.
1. The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument. 2. A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem. 3. The most difficult portion of an ascent in rock climbing or mountaineering. [Probably short for Medieval Latin crux (interpretum), torment (of interpreters), from Latin crux, cross .]
CRUX definition: the main or most important part of a problem, argument, etc. Learn more.
Definition of crux noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Crux Sentence Examples. That is the crux of the matter. Thus in presence of the problem which is the crux of materialism, the origin of consciousness, he first propounds a gratuitous hypothesis that everything has mind, and then gives up the origin of conscious mind after all.
