Core
Appearance
Core may refer to:
Computers and technology
- Core (manufacturing), used in casting and molding
- Core (optical fiber), the signal-carrying portion of an optical fiber
- Core Animation, in computing, a data visualization API used in Mac OS X
- Core dump, in computing, is the recorded state of a running program
- Core International, a defunct American computer and technology corporation
- Intel Core, in computing, 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
- Magnetic-core memory, in computing, the primary memory prior to semiconductor memory
- Multi-core, a type of microprocessor design in which multiple processors coexist on the same chip
- Nuclear reactor core, a portion containing the fuel components
- Semiconductor intellectual property core, is a unit of design in ASIC/FPGA electronics and IC manufacturing
Media
- Core (band), a stoner rock band
- Core (novel), a 1993 science fiction novel by Paul Preuss
- Core (Persefone album), 2006
- Core (radio station), a defunct digital radio station in the United Kingdom
- Core (Stone Temple Pilots album), 1992
- Core Design, a videogame developer best known for the Tomb Raider series
- Cores (film), a 2012 film
- "Core", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack
- 90.3 The Core RLC-WVPH, a radio station in Piscataway, New Jersey
- The Core, a 2003 science fiction film
- The Core, the 2006–2007 name for the programming block on Five currently known as Shake!
- "The Core", a song from Eric Clapton's 1977 album Slowhand
- C.O.R.E., a computer animation studio
- C.O.R.E. (video game), a 2009 NDS game
Acronyms
- Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium
- Central Organization for Railway Electrification, an organization in India
- China Open Resources for Education, an OpenCourseWare organization in China
- Congress of Racial Equality, United States civil rights organization
- Coordinated Online Register of Electors, central database in the United Kingdom
Science
Biological sciences
- Core (anatomy), everything except the appendages
Mathematics
Functional analysis
- An essential domain of a closed operator; see Unbounded_operator#Closed_linear_operators
- A radial kernel of a subset of a vector space; see Algebraic interior
Other mathematical disciplines
- Core (game theory), the collection of stable allocations that no coalition can improve upon
- Core (graph theory), in mathematics, the homomorphically minimal subgraph of a graph
- Core (group theory), in mathematics, an object in group theory
- Core of a triangulated category
Social sciences
- Core countries, in dependency theory, an industrialized country on which peripheral countries depend
- Core curriculum, in education, an essential part of the curriculum
- Lithic core, in archaeology, a stone artifact left over from toolmaking
Physical sciences
- Core sample, in Earth science, a sample obtained by coring
- Hydrophobic core, the interior zone of a protein
- Lithic core, in archaeology, a stone artifact left over from toolmaking
- The central part of a galaxy; see Mass deficit
- Planetary core, the center of a planet
- Inner core of the Earth
- Outer core of the Earth
- Solar core, the region of the Sun where nuclear fusion takes place
Places
- Core, San Diego, California, a neighborhood in the United States
- Core, West Virginia
- Core Banks
- Core Sound
Other uses
- CORE (Brazil), state police SWAT team
- Core (architecture)
- Core, the working name of the Digestive Disorders Foundation
- Earl Lemley Core (1902–1984), West Virginia botanist
- Core, the suffix for musical styles with hardcore punk influence and origins
- Korah, a biblical figure
- Persephone, a Greek goddess also known as Kore or Cora (Greek κόρη = daughter)
- The single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit