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What does core mean?

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Noun
  1. The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
  2. The heart or inner part of a physical thing
  3. The center or inner part of a space or area
  4. The most important part of a thing; the essence.
  5. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
  6. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
  7. (computing) Magnetic data storage.
  8. (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called multi-core processor).
  9. (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
  10. The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
  11. A piece of soft iron, inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
  12. A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
  13. A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
  14. (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
  15. (biochemistry) The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.
Verb
  1. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
  2. To extract a sample with a drill.
Noun
  1. (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
Noun
  1. A miner's underground working time or shift.
Noun
  1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
Noun
  1. (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
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