CORE
Definition of CORE
- (verb)remove the core or center from
- (noun)a small group of indispensable persons or things
- (noun)the center of an object
- (noun)the central part of the Earth
- (noun)the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- (noun)a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
- (noun)the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- (noun)(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
- (noun)the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
- (noun)a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil