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- n a small group of indispensable persons or things
five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program - n the center of an object
the ball has a titanium core - n the central part of the Earth
- n the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- n a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
- n an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
- n the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- n (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories
each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit - n the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
- n a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
- v remove the core or center from
core an apple
- Hard-core gamers like it because it's got decent graphics and a great online service and it's developer-friendly, so there are lots of good games for it.
- These were hard-core shorts, 10 to 20 mins.
- With the exception of luxury travel, core millennials are more interested than core boomers in owning or using all luxury products and services asked about.