cores
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Definitions ofcores
- Various former units of volume, particularly:
- The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
Example: "the core of an apple or quince"
- The heart or inner part of a physical thing
- The center or inner part of a space or area
Example: "the core of a square"
- The most important part of a thing; the essence.
Example: "the core of a subject"
- The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
- The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- Magnetic data storage.
- An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called multi-core processor).
Example: "I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core."
- The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
Example: "a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core"
- The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
- A piece of ferromagnetic material (i.e. soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
- A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
- A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
- A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
- The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.
- The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
- A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is winded.
- An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e. except valence electrons).
- To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
- To extract a sample with a drill.
- A body of individuals; an assemblage.
- A miner's underground working time or shift.
- (machinery, marine) 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.
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