"key log" meaning in All languages combined

See key log on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: key logs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} key log (plural key logs)
  1. The log which, if removed, would free up the whole logjam.
    Sense id: en-key_log-en-noun-0jJv7ysf
  2. The key issue or problem, which if (re)solved, would make the current task easy to complete. The issue around which the whole problem revolves.
    Sense id: en-key_log-en-noun--Qm4F0b4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 33 67 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 78

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1932 December, Homer L. Dodge, “The Improvement of College Teaching”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 3, number 9, Ohio State University Press, page 485:",
          "text": "In a log jam, where everything is at cross-purposes, there is somewhere a key log causing the trouble. The key log in the educational jam is the department, and the things which have caused it to make so much trouble are narrow departmental ambition and excessive striving for reputation through the publication of research.",
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          "ref": "1938, Col. Leonard P. Ayres, quoted in \"\"Cheapskate\" Counterpoint\", in Time magazine, Monday, Jan. 10, 1938",
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