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Definition core

Etymology 1

From Middle English core, kore, coor (“apple-core, pith”), of uncertain origin; either from Old French cuer (“heart”), from Latin cor (“heart”); or from Old French cors (“body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Compare also Middle English colk, coke, coll (“the heart or centre of an apple or onion, core”). See also heart, corpse.

Noun

core (countable and uncountable, plural cores)

1. The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
2. The heart or inner part of a physical thing
3. The center or inner part of a space or area
4. The most important part of a thing; the essence.
5. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
6. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
7. (computing) Magnetic data storage.
8. (computer hardware) 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).
9. (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
10. The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
11. A piece of soft iron, inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
12. A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
13. A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
14. (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
15. (biochemistry) The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.
16. (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
17. (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is winded.

Verb

core (third-person singular simple present cores, present participle coring, simple past and past participle cored)

1. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
2. To extract a sample with a drill.

Etymology 2

See corps

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.

Etymology 3

See chore

Noun

core (plural cores)

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

Etymology 4

From Hebrew ????‎

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.

Etymology 5

Possibly an acronym for cash on return

Noun

core (plural cores)

1. (automotive, machinery, aviation, 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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