








Core
[NOUN]1
the central part of a fruit that typically contains seeds, like in apples, pears, and pineapples
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a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
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the central part of a nuclear reactor where the fuel is placed and nuclear reaction takes place
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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
synonyms : magnetic core
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an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
synonyms : Congress of Racial Equality
Examples
1. Her family is English to the core.
2. He carefully cored the pineapple before serving it as a tropical dessert.
3. She cored the apple and sliced it into pieces for the pie.
4. He's rotten to the core.
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