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center, substance, core, heart, essence, sum, centre, inwardness, marrow, kernel, gist, heart and soul, meat, nub, pith, nitty-gritty | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | ||
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core | the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place | ||
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core | remove the core or center from | ||
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core | the central part of the Earth | ||
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core, nucleus, core group | a small group of indispensable persons or things | ||
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core, magnetic core | [in computer_science] a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories | ||
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core | a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill | ||
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core | the center of an object | ||
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core | a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil | ||
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effect, core, burden, essence, gist | the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | ||
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Congress of Racial Equality, CORE | an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality |