Core — synonyms, definition

1. core (Noun)

Congress of Racial Equality abstract argument assembly backbone base basis body bulk burden center central idea centre concern condensation contents core group crux distillation drift • • •

core (Noun) — An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality.

core (Noun) — A small group of indispensable persons or things. ex. "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

core (Noun) — The centre of an object. ex. "the ball has a titanium core"

core (Noun) — The central part of the Earth.

core (Noun) — The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. ex. "the core of the prosecutor's argument"

core (Noun) — A cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill.

core (Noun) — The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.

core (Noun) — (computing) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories. ex. "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"

core (Noun) — The chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place.

core (Noun) — A bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil.

NGO bar center centre chamber cognitive content content import meaning mental object midpoint nongovernmental organisation nongovernmental organization sample set significance signification toroid torus bare bones cadre corn cob corncob haecceity hypostasis quiddity quintessence stuff Magnet core memory magnetic core memory nuclear reactor ram random access memory random memory random-access memory reactor read/write memory

2. core (Verb)

core (Verb) — Remove the core or centre from. ex. "core an apple"

core out hollow hollow out