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noun - a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus
noun - the most important point
The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.
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| Gist |
| Heart |
| Essence |
| Essential point |
| Central point |
| Vital point |
| Key point |
| Heart of the matter |
| Point |
| Main point |
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| Latin for "cross", it's the critical point or feature of an argument |
| The heart of the matter, the this, if you will, is that it's a pivotal point |
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| the decisive or most important point at issue. |
| The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter the crux of an argument. |
| A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem. |
| The decisive or most important point at issue. |
| 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. Formerly called Crux Australis. |
| the most important point |
| a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the Milky Way near Centaurus |
| the most important or serious part of a matter, problem, or argument: |
| the most important problem, question, or part: |
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Crux is a constellation located in the southern sky in a bright portion of the Milky Way. It is among the most easily distinguished constellations, as all of its four main stars have an apparent visual magnitude brighter than +2.8, even though it is the smallest of all 88 modern constellations. Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped or kite-like asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross. * Predominating is the first-magnitude blue-white star of Alpha Crucis or Acrux, being the constellation's brightest and most southerly member. Crux is followed by four dominant stars, descending in clockwise order by magnitude: Beta, Gamma (one of the closest red giants to Earth), Delta and Epsilon Crucis. Many of these brighter stars are members of the ScorpiusCentaurus Association, a large but loose group of hot blue-white stars that appear to share common origins and motion across the southern Milky Way. The constellation contains four Cepheid variables that a |