core




core - noun

  • a small group of indispensable persons or things
  • the center of an object
  • the central part of the Earth
  • the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  • a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
  • an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
  • the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
  • (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
  • the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
  • a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

  • core - verb

    core - thesaurus

    burden   center American English spelling   centre British English spelling   effect   essence   gist   heart   inwardness   kernel   marrow   meat   nub   nucleus   pith   substance   sum