Wikipedia Wikipedia

See also -core

Contents

English

Etymology

Middle English core "apple-core, pith". Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old French cuer "heart" from Latin cor "heart". More at heart.

Pronunciation

Noun

core (countable and uncountable; plural cores)

  1. A body of individuals; an assemblage.
  2. A miner's underground working time or shift.
  3. A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
  4. The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
  5. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.
  6. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
  7. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
  8. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
  9. A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
  10. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
  11. (computing) magnetic memory.
  12. (computing) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one
  13. (automotive) 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. Said to be an acronym for Cash On REturn, but that may be a backronym.

Derived terms

Verb

to core (third-person singular simple present cores, present participle coring, simple past and past participle cored)

  1. To remove the core (4) of an apple.
  2. To extract a sample with a drill.

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Thu Jul 29 16:11:38 2010. [ refresh local cache ]
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.

[Hide]▼
'Core' News
Bluetooth 4.0 Spec Adopted; Testing Can Begin - PC Magazine
pcmag.com
Bluetooth 4.0 Spec Adopted; Testing Can Begin - PC Magazine
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:41:05 GMT+00:00
PC Magazine The Bluetooth SIG on Tuesday announced the formal adoption of Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0, which begins the qualification process for new, ... Vendors are allowed to test Bluetooth 4 devices Inquirer Bluetooth Spec Enables Some Gizmos to Go Years Between Charges PC World Bluetooth 4 Spec Cuts Power Consumption InformationWeek PR Newswire (press release)  - Softpedia  - ElectronicsWeekly.com
Google News Search: core,
Tue Jul 20 13:42:57 2010
[Hide]▲