eng: core

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Meaning
means	(noun) a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program" core, nucleus, core group
means	(noun) the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core" core
means	(noun) the central part of the Earth core
means	(noun) 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" substance, gist, sum, heart, center, nitty-gritty, centre, kernel, core, meat, nub, pith, heart and soul, essence, marrow, inwardness
means	(noun) a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill core
means	(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work essence, burden, core, gist, effect
means	(noun) (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit" core, magnetic core
means	(noun) the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place core
means	(noun) a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil core
means	(verb) remove the core or center from; "core an apple" core
means	e/Core (economics)
means	e/Core (graph theory)
means	e/Core (group)
means	e/Core (novel)