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Various former units of volume, particularly:
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The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
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the core of an apple or quince
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The heart or inner part of a physical thing
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The center or inner part of a space or area
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the core of a square
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The most important part of a thing; the essence.
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the core of a subject
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The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
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The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
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Magnetic data storage.
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An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called multi-core processor).
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I wanted to play a particular computer game, which required I buy a new computer, so while the game said it needed at least a dual-core processor, I wanted my computer to be a bit ahead of the curve, so I bought a quad-core.
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The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
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a floor panel with a Nomex honeycomb core
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The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
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A piece of ferromagnetic material (i.e. soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
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A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
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A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
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A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
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The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.
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The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
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A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is winded.
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An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e. except valence electrons).
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To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.
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To extract a sample with a drill.
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A body of individuals; an assemblage.
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A miner's underground working time or shift.
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(machinery, marine) 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.
Examples of cores in a Sentence
The heavier cores, with the consequent advance in speed of working attainable, have necessitated the introduction of automatic sending, the instruments adopted being in general a modification of the Wheatstone transmitter adapted to the form of cable signals, while the regularity of transmission thus secured has caused its introduction even on circuits where the speed cannot exceed that of the ordinary operator's hand signalling.
Taking the Atlantic as our simplest type, we may say that the surface of an ocean basin resembles that of a mighty trough or syncline, buckled up more or less centrally in a medial ridge, which is bounded by two long and deep marginal hollows, in the cores of which still deeper grooves sink to the profoundest depths.
Low hysteresis is the chief requisite for iron which is to be used for transformer cores, and it does not necessarily accompany high permeability.
The sum total amounts to 419 objects, besides hundreds of fragments, cores, spalls and rejects, retained for study and comparison.
The air-ways k, k, in the fixed vanes establish communication between the cores of the vortices and the atmosphere.
Archean rocks form the cores of the ancient crystalline masses within the littoral zone from Algiers to Bona.
It appears in the cores of some of the western mountains, in some of the deep canyons of the west, as in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado in northern Arizona, and over considerable areas in northern Wiscpnsin and Minnesota, in New England and the piedmont plateau east of the Appalachian Mountains, and in a few other situations.
The system is also exposed in many of the western mountains or about their borders, especially about those the cores of which are of Archean or Proterozoic rock.
It is in the metal in these channels and in that part of the main mass of metal which immediately adjoins the coils that the current is induced by means of the coils and cores, as in the Kjellin furnace.
The resulting cores are more regular than those of modern rock-drilling.
Lastly, we have the great family of hollow-horned ruminants or Bovidae, in which the horns (present in the males at least of all the existing species) take the form of simple non-deciduous hollow sheaths growing upon bony cores.
With increased skill in large castings, and the discovery of the use of cores, by which the fluid bronze was poured into a mere skin-like cavity, hammered or repousse work was only used in the case of small objects in which lightness was desirable, or for the precious metals in order to avoid large expenditure of metal.
This mould must obviously be made in scores of little separate sections (false cores or drawbacks) to permit of their removal from the model without causing fracture of the sand.
The breaking is done by passing the stalks between grooved or fluted rollers of different pitches; these rollers, of which there may be from 5 to 7 pairs, are sometimes arranged to work alternately forwards and backwards in order to thoroughly break the woody material or " boon " of the straw, while the broken " shoves " are beaten out by suspending the fibre in a machine fitted with a series of revolving blades, which, striking violently against the flax, shake out the bruised and broken woody cores.
Above ground, if the water level is to be higher than the natural boundary, the same puddle walls or cores are carried up to the required level, and are supported as they rise by embankments of earth on either side.
Hence the extreme importance in high dams with clay cores of loading the clay well for some time before water pressure is brought against it.
Transmission line transformer using low-permeability ferrite cores gives amazingly flat response 1.8 to 30 MHz.
There are no cores suggesting that they were either removed from the site or that the knapping debris was removed from elsewhere for burial.
Samples of pollen taken from cores bored from deep peat bogs or lake sediments are stratified, with the earliest part lying deepest.
We have 5 days of allocated science onboard in which to collect cores of deep sea sediments - made up of beautiful fossil diatoms!
The new evidence was gleaned from interplanetary dust found in cores taken in copper mines in Africa.
Measurements of such order are usually made by diffraction techniques, which detect the ionic cores and the spins of the conduction electrons.
Then pull fid and braid through from point T to point X. Do this to both cores.
Having two processing cores on one physical CPU allows system integrators to produce significantly higher performance systems at a remarkably low price.
Such processor designs are often called IP cores, because you you are actually selling intellectual property (IP) rather than anything tangible.
For cores longer than 3m, 2 barrels can be joined together using a joiner.
Adult ranges were exclusive of other adults at 35% cores and juveniles of other juveniles at 20% cores.
The results confirm earlier, basic observations on deep ice cores and have led to new insights.
The desert cores remain pristine in many parts of the world, representing some of the planet's last remaining areas of total wilderness.
There are blades, bladelets, several small cores and many struck flakes, a few having light retouch.
What we are seeing are, in fact, the remains of the flint rubble cores.
Examination of cores revealed that the well stopped in fractured schist containing oil.
Cores will be placed in a microcosm mesocosm tank containing filtered seawater, which is recycled, stirred and aerated to maintain ambient conditions.
As a result, the low-frequency radio emission is affected by synchrotron self-absorption, giving cores a characteristically flat radio spectrum.
The first tine to extract cores of soil was designed and produced by Paul's of Paisley in 1919.
Soil cores were taken along transects running from a central tree to each of the surrounding four trees.
Among notable mammals the chimpanzee is found in Unyoro, Toro and north-west Ankole, and has only recently become extinct in Buganda; the okapi inhabits the Semliki forests on the Congo frontier; the giraffe (the male sometimes developing five horn cores) is common in the Northern, Eastern and Rudolf provinces; there are three types of buffalo - the Cape, the Congo and the Abyssinian; two species of zebra (one of them Grevy's), the African wild ass, the square-lipped (" white ") and pointed-lipped (" black ") rhinoceroses, the elephant, hippopotamus, water tragelaph (" Speke's antelope "), Cape ant-bear, aard-wolf (Proteles), hunting-dog, and nearly every genus and most of the species of African antelopes.
Sumpner, however, has devised forms of wattmeter of the dyna - mometer type in which iron cores are employed, and has defined the conditions under which these instruments are available for accurate measurements.
The remainder of Saturday afternoon was spent in the laboratory learning about the analysis of sediment cores to reconstruct past climates.
The iron and ruthenium clusters not only lost their carbonyl ligands, but their cluster cores were also fragmented.
The first tine to extract cores of soil was designed and produced by Paul 's of Paisley in 1919.
The initial suggestion to establish the greens from hollow tine cores was provided by Dr. Ian McClements, Senior Agronomist for STRI covering Ireland.
Magnetic ceramics The steel alloys used for transformer cores have high resistivity in order to prevent substantial eddy current losses.
What makes processors different from each other is how efficient they perform calculations or, in probably more familiar terms, the speed of the computer, measured in gigahertz (GHz) and how many processing cores are embedded on the chip.
The best way to explain what cores are is to have you think of one core as a two lane highway.
The strands are reinforced with stainless steel or sometimes aluminum cores to give it durability and strength.
It's a single core system, and bungie has already stated that they are using both cores to handle the new AI as well as the completely new graphics.
Sun block should be used during both winter and summer months, to help prevent cold cores.
Carrot tops and apple cores offer essential nutrients as well!
LoneStar provides wicks for all different types of candles and candle making needs including wicking rolls with zinc cores, wood wicks in four sizes, wick tabs and wick clip assemblies.