English Dictionary

core

/kɔː/

noun

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 apple core contains the seeds.

意味（1）

The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

the core of an apple or quince

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The heart or inner part of a physical thing.

Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

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The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.

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The center or inner part of a space or area.

the core of the square

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The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.

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A technical term for classification of things denoting those parts of a category that are most easily or most likely understood as within it.

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(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.

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(computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory.; magnetic data storage.

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(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).

I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.

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(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.

a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core

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(engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.

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(military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.

In a hollow-core design, neutrons escape from the core more readily, allowing more fissile material to be used (and thus allowing for a greater yield) while still keeping the core subcritical prior to detonation.

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A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.

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(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.

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(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.

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The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

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A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

[the skin of the sheep] is clear from cores and jogs under the jaws.

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(biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.

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A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.

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(physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).