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core

English

  1. 🔊 a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
  2. 🔊 the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
  3. 🔊 (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data
    “each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit”
  4. 🔊 a small group of indispensable persons or things
    “five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program”
  5. 🔊 the center of an object
    “the ball has a titanium core”
  6. 🔊 the central part of the Earth
  7. 🔊 a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
  8. 🔊 an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
  9. 🔊 the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
    “the gist of the prosecutor's argument”
  10. 🔊 the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
  11. 🔊 remove the core or center from
    “core an apple”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 troncal core, main
  2. 🔊 centro core, heart
  3. 🔊 eje core, heart, center (main idea)
  4. 🔊 troncalidad core, forming the core of something
  5. 🔊 meollo core, heart, crux (the most important part of something)

Similar words

magnetic core kernel substance center centre essence gist heart heart and soul inwardness marrow meat nub pith sum nitty-gritty effect essence burden gist nucleus core group congress of racial equality bowery