The Collaborative International Dictionary
Core \Core\, n. [OF. cor, coer, cuer, F. c[oe]ur, fr. L. cor heart. See Heart.]
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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.
A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore.
--Byron. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square. [Obs.]
--Sir W. Raleigh.The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject; -- also used attributively, as the core curriculum at a college.
(Founding) The portion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.
A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.(Anat.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
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(Elec.) A mass of iron or other ferrous metal, forming the central part of an electromagnet, such as those upon which the conductor of an armature, a transformer, or an induction coil is wound.
Note: The presence of the iron intensifies the magnetic field created by a a current passing through the windings.
(mining) a sample of earth or rock extracted from underground by a drilling device in such a manner that the layers of rock are preserved in the same order as they exist underground; as, to drill a core; to extract a core. The sample is typically removed with a rotating drill bit having a hollow center, and is thus shaped like a cylinder.
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(computers) the main working memory of a digital computer system, which typically retains the program code being executed as well as the data structures that are manipulated by the program. Contrasted to ROM and data storage device.
Note: The term was applied originally to small ferromagnetic rings that were used to store data in a computer, each ring representing one bit of information by virtue of its state of magnetization. They were superseded by electronic data storage devices.
Syn: core memory, random access memory, RAM
9. (Geol.) the central part of the earth, believed to be a sphere with a radius of about 2100 miles, and composed primarily of molten iron with some nickel. It is distinguished from the crust and mantle.
9. (Engineering) the central part of a nuclear reactor, containing the fissionable fuel.
Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded.
Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.
Usage examples of "core box".
Express (which is itself a box in motion) and then decide which of these chosen media then get to move all the way into the extreme rear's salon to interface with McCain himself, who is the campaign's narrator and narrative at once, a candidate whose biggest draw of course is that he's an anticandidate, someone who's open and accessible and ``thinks outside the box,'' but who is in fact the campaign's Chinese boxes' central and inscrutable core box, and whose own intracranial thoughts on all these boxes and layers and lenses and on whether this new kind of enclosure is anything like Hoa Lo's dark box are pretty much anyone in the media's guess, since all he'll talk about is politics.