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core [n]
 
1)the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: center  corncob 
 
2)a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"
    Synonyms :core_group nucleus 
    See Also: set  cadre 
 
3)the central part of the Earth
    Synonyms :
    See Also: center 
 
4)the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
    Synonyms :center essence gist heart heart_and_soul inwardness kernel marrow meat nitty-gritty nub pith substance sum 
    See Also: cognitive_content  summate  bare_bones  hypostasis  haecceity  quintessence  stuff 
 
5)a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
    Synonyms :
    See Also: sample 
 
6)an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality
    Synonyms :congress_of_racial_equality 
    See Also: ngo 
 
7)the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
    Synonyms :burden effect essence gist 
    See Also: import 
 
8)the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
    Synonyms :
    See Also: chamber  nuclear_reactor 
 
9)a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
    Synonyms :
    See Also: bar  magnet  magnetic_core 
 
core [v]
 
1)remove the core or center from; "core an apple"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: core_out 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. Main memory or RAM. This term dates from the days of ferrite core memory; now archaic most places outside IBM, but also still used in the Unix community and by old-time hackers or those who would sound like them.

Some derived idioms are quite current; "in core", for example, means "in memory" (paged in, as opposed to "on disk", paged out), and both core dump and the "core image" or "core file" produced by one are terms in favour. Some varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer store.

[Jargon File]

(1995-03-03)

2. An integrated circuit design, usually for a microprocessor, which includes only the CPU and which is intended to form part of a complete circuit design which incorporates other circuits on the same chip such as cache, memory management unit, I/O ports and timers.

The ARM6, ARM7 and ARM8 are examples.

3. A varient on kernel as used to describe features built into a language as opposed to those provided by libraries.

(1995-03-03)








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