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heartpiece

heartpiece noun: a centerpiece; a central part.

Noun

heartpiece (plural heartpieces)

  1. (also, figuratively, chiefly non-native speakers' English) A centerpiece; a central part.
    • Therefore the organization chart is the heartpiece of every company manual developed for the employees.2004 June 7, Daniel Gschwend, Businessplan - Theoretical Guide, diplom.de, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123
    • The heartpiece of the plant consists of several horizontal hot gas funnels and corresponding vertical material funnels (Fig. 1). In these funnels the cold cullet flows from the top to the bottom by means of the force of gravity and is heated up by the hot waste gas.2009 September 28, John B. Wachtman, 51st Conference on Glass Problems, Volume 12, Issue 3/4 (Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings), John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 551

Examples of heartpiece in a sentence

  • The heartpiece of a successful integration is the facilitation of knowledge transfer paralleled with high absorptive capacity of both organizations.2010 March 1, Richard K. Lenz, Post-LBO development: Analysis of Changes in Strategy, Operations, and Performance after the Exit from...
  • It did not follow logically in her mind that because she had aborted the savage strategy once she should become the heartpiece of the packfast's defense.2013 July 26, Glen Cook, Doomstalker, Start Publishing LLC, →ISBN, →OCLC:
  • And it is here of all places, where the very heartpiece of Marx's theory is at stake, that Lukács departs from Marx and makes reference, instead, to Simmel and Weber.³¹²2014 April 17, Christoph Henning, Philosophy after Marx: 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy...

Forms of heartpiece

pluralheartpieces
alternative formheart piece

Origin of heartpiece

Compare German Herzstück.

Questions about heartpiece

What does heartpiece mean?
Heartpiece means a centerpiece; a central part.
How do you use heartpiece in a sentence?
The heartpiece of a successful integration is the facilitation of knowledge transfer paralleled with high absorptive capacity of both organizations.
What part of speech is heartpiece?
Heartpiece is a noun.
What is the plural of heartpiece?
The plural of heartpiece is heartpieces.

Words near heartpiece in the dictionary

  1. heartmates
  2. heartmen
  3. heartnut
  4. heartnuts
  5. heartpea
  6. heartpiece
  7. heartquake
  8. heartquakes
  9. heartrate
  10. heartrates
  11. heartrending

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