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Definition of CORE

1. Verb. Remove the core or center from. "Core an apple"

2. Noun. A small group of indispensable persons or things. "Five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

3. Noun. The center of an object. "The ball has a titanium core"

4. Noun. The central part of the Earth.

5. Noun. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. "The nub of the story"

6. Noun. A cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill.

7. Noun. An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality.

8. Noun. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.

9. Noun. (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories. "Each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"

10. Noun. The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place.

11. Noun. A bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil.

Definition of CORE

1. n. A body of individuals; an assemblage.

2. n. A miner's underground working time or shift.

3. n. A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.

4. n. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.

5. v. t. To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.

6. n. A mass of iron, usually made of thin plates, upon which the conductor of an armature or of a transformer is wound.

Definition of CORE

1. Acronym. Congress of Racial Equality ¹

2. Acronym. Center for Operations Research and Econometrics ¹

3. Acronym. Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education ¹

4. Acronym. Corporate Responsibility ¹

5. Acronym. Council on Rehabilitation Education ¹

6. Acronym. Computing Research and Education Association ¹

7. Noun. A body of individuals; an assemblage. ¹

8. Noun. A miner's underground working time or shift. ¹

9. Noun. A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer. ¹

10. Noun. The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. ¹

11. Noun. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc. ¹

12. Noun. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. ¹

13. Noun. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject. ¹

14. Noun. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting. ¹

15. Noun. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. ¹

16. Noun. (computing) magnetic memory. ¹

17. Noun. (computing) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one ¹

18. Noun. (automotive) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself. Said to be an acronym for Cash On REturn, but that may be a backronym. ¹

19. Verb. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit. ¹

20. Verb. To extract a sample with a drill. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of CORE

1. to remove the core (the central part) of [v CORED, CORING, CORES]

Medical Definition of CORE

1. 1. The central mass of necrotic tissue in a boil. 2. A metal casting, usually with a post in the canal of a tooth root, designed to retain an artificial crown. 3. A sectional record, usually of plaster of Paris or one of its derivatives, of the relationships of parts, such as teeth, metallic restorations, or copings. Origin: L. Cor, heart 4. The pupil (of the eye). Origin: G. Kore, pupil (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of CORE

corduroylike corduroys cordwain cordwainer cordwaineries cordwainers cordwainery cordwains cordwood cordwoods

cordy pulse cordycepin cordyline cordylines cordylobiasis core core-inflation core-level core biopsy core bit

core competency core constituency core constituent core curriculum core drill core drills core dump core dumps core group core hole

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