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      core
      noun
      In general usage, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
      The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
      The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
      The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
      The center or inner part of a space or area.
      The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
      A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.
      (botany) The main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
      (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
      (art) A thematic aesthetic; objects related to a specific topic
      particular parts of technical instruments or machines essential in function:
      (engineering, manufacturing) The portion of a mold that creates a cavity or impression within the part (casting or molded part) or that makes a hole in or through the part.
      (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 a multi-core processor).
      (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
      (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
      (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
      A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
      (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
      Hence particular parts of a subject studied or examined by technical operations, likened by position and practical or structural robustness to kernels, cores in the most vulgar sense above.
      (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
      The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
      A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
      (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
      A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
      (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
      A miner's underground working time or shift.
      (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.
      (neologism) An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.
      A surname.
      A female given name from Ancient Greek.
      (Greek mythology) The birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and the wife of Hades.
      A neighbourhood of San Diego, California, United States.
      An unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
      Acronym of corporate responsibility.
      (US politics) Acronym of Congress of Racial Equality.
      Acronym of Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
      Acronym of Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education.
      Acronym of Council on Rehabilitation Education.
      Acronym of Computing Research and Education Association.
      Obsolete form of Korah. [(biblical) A biblical character who rebelled against Moses.]
      (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
      (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory (“magnetic data storage”). [(computing, historical, countable, uncountable) A type of non-volatile random-access rewritable electronic memory using ferrite cores to magnetically store binary digits (bits).]
      (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume. [(historical units of measure) Any of various former units of volume, particularly:]
      verb
      To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
      To cut or drill through the core of (something).
      To extract a sample with a drill.
      adjective
      Forming the most important or essential part.
      (board sports) Deeply and authentically involved in the culture surrounding the sport.
      Synonyms for core
      kernelnnucleusnheartnessencencenternpithngistnnubnfundamentaladjcruxnmarrowncentraladjinneradjcornerstonen
      Words related to core
      coremakercorerninwardnessnfoundationalprimogenialinnermostadjheartlandntenetsnunderlyingadjprimaladjprocessornprimaryadjinmostadjmainadjbasicadj

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