CORE
- (acronym) . Congress of Racial Equality.
- (acronym) . Center for Operations Research and Econometrics.
- (acronym) . Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education.
- (acronym) . Corporate Responsibility.
- (acronym) . Council on Rehabilitation Education.
- (acronym) . Computing Research and Education Association.
- Noun. A body of individuals; an assemblage.
- Noun. A miner's underground working time or shift.
- Noun. A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
- Noun. The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
- Noun. The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.
- Noun. The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
- Noun. The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.
- Noun. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
- Noun. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
- Noun. (computing) magnetic memory.
- Noun. (computing) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one.
- Noun. (automotive) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself. Said to be an acronym for Cash On REturn, but that may be a backronym.
- Verb. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
- Verb. To extract a sample with a drill.
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