"nuc" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nucs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nuc (plural nucs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "nuc"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Beekeeping",
          "orig": "en:Beekeeping",
          "parents": [
            "Agriculture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bees",
          "orig": "en:Bees",
          "parents": [
            "Beekeeping",
            "Hymenopterans",
            "Agriculture",
            "Insects",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Arthropods",
            "Sciences",
            "Animals",
            "All topics",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them, page 110:",
          "text": "I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony."
      ],
      "id": "en-nuc-en-noun-VY1Z20nN",
      "links": [
        [
          "beekeeping",
          "beekeeping"
        ],
        [
          "nucleus",
          "nucleus"
        ],
        [
          "colony",
          "colony"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nuke"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "beekeeping",
        "business",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/njuːk/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːk"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "neuk"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "nuke"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuc"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Shortening.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nucs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nuc (plural nucs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "nuc"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/uːk",
        "Rhymes:English/uːk/1 syllable",
        "en:Beekeeping",
        "en:Bees"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them, page 110:",
          "text": "I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beekeeping",
          "beekeeping"
        ],
        [
          "nucleus",
          "nucleus"
        ],
        [
          "colony",
          "colony"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "beekeeping",
        "business",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/njuːk/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːk"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "neuk"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "nuke"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "nuke"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nuc"
}