Core Explained
Core or cores may refer to:
Science and technology
- Core (anatomy), everything except the appendages
- Core (manufacturing), used in casting and molding
- Core (optical fiber), the signal-carrying portion of an optical fiber
- Core, the central part of a fruit
- Hydrophobic core, the interior zone of a protein
- Nuclear reactor core, a portion containing the fuel components
- Pit (nuclear weapon) or core, the fissile material in a nuclear weapon
- Semiconductor intellectual property core (IP core), is a unit of design in ASIC/FPGA electronics and IC manufacturing
- Atomic core, an atom with no valence electrons
- Lithic core, in archaeology, a stone artifact left over from toolmaking
Geology and astrophysics
Computing
- Core Animation, a data visualization API used in macOS
- Core dump, the recorded state of a running program
- Intel Core, a family of single-core and multi-core 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs released by Intel
- Magnetic core, in electricity and electronics, ferromagnetic material around which wires are wound
- Central processing unit (CPU), called a core
- Server Core, a minimalist Microsoft Windows Server installation option
Mathematics
Arts, entertainment and media
- Core (novel), a 1993 science fiction novel by Paul Preuss
- Core (radio station), a defunct digital radio station in the United Kingdom
- 90.3 The Core RLC-WVPH, a radio station in Piscataway, New Jersey, US
- C.O.R.E. (video game), a 2009 NDS game
- Core (video game), a video game with integrated game creation system
- "CORE", an area in the Underground in the video game Undertale
- "The Core", an episode of The Transformers cartoon
Film and television
- Cores (film), a 2012 film
- The Core, a 2003 science fiction film
- The Core, the 2006–2007 name for the programming block on Five currently known as Shake!
Music
Organizations
- Core International, a defunct American computer and technology corporation
- Core Design, a videogame developer best known for the Tomb Raider series
- Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais, Brazilian state police SWAT team
- Digestive Disorders Foundation, working name Core
- Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium
- Central Organisation for Railway Electrification, an organization in India
- China Open Resources for Education, an OpenCourseWare organization in China
- Community Organized Relief Effort, a non-profit organization providing humanitarian relief
- Congress of Racial Equality, United States civil rights organization
- CORE (research service), a UK-based aggregator of open access content
- C.O.R.E., a computer animation studio
- CORE System Trust, see CORE-OM
Places
United States
Other places
People
Other uses
- Core (architecture)
- Co-ordinated On-line Record of Electors, central database in the United Kingdom
- Coree or Cores, a Native American tribe
- Korah, a biblical figure
- Leadership core, concept in Chinese politics
- Persephone, a Greek goddess also known as Kore or Cora (Greek κόρη = daughter)
- Core countries, in dependency theory, an industrialized country on which peripheral countries depend
- Core curriculum, in education, an essential part of the curriculum
- CORE (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Use) System, see CORE-OM
See also