"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": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 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 entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 4 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"
}