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core
noun
- 1. The fibrous case at the centre of some fruits, eg apples and pears, containing the seeds.
2. The innermost, central, essential or unchanging part.
- Thesaurus: essence, heart, kernel, gist, pith; centre, hub, focus, pivot.
4. archaeol.
- The lump of stone left after flakes have been struck off it for shaping into tools.
6. elec.
- A piece of magnetic material that, when placed in the centre of a wire coil through which an electric current is being passed, increases the intensity of the magnetic field and the inductance of the coil.
- Form: core memory
9. A cylindrical sample of rock, soil, etc, removed with a hollow tubular drill.
- cored, coring
1. To remove the core of (an apple, etc).
- With the core removed.
- Containing a core.
