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Design, on the other hand, is the core of the product: how it functions.

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Quick take

a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

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the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"

noun

the central part of the Earth

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for core.

noun

a small group of indispensable persons or things; "five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program"

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the center of an object; "the ball has a titanium core"

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the central part of the Earth

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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

See also: kernel, substance, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, inwardness

noun

a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

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an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

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the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"

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the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

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a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

verb

remove the core or center from; "core an apple"

Example sentences

Design, on the other hand, is the core of the product: how it functions.

They came with specs, but they did not focus on core user experience in the beginning.

Android is no longer meaningfully open, other than a years old core of basic functions.

The fact that we needed 1,5 year to get the fix to some critical audio core and video settings issues out is way too much.

There are core gameplay mechanics that are still fundamentally broken.

I was able to get about 15k qps/core using this configuration and it was rock stable, running for weeks without need of a reboot.

The Hangouts team probably has good reason at the moment to strictly focus on a core set of functionality and get it working with good UX on all the platforms.

Overpaying for a company at the moment when its core competency is becoming a commodity.

Chemical symbols are just one of many plugins for their core software which interprets unstructured, information rich data like raster diagrams.

I expected a permissive license or an open-core strategy to monetize proprietary components and not be friendly with the free software community, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.

It's just more and more layers of abstraction and you start to see the nth demo of WebGL maxing out a 4 core modern GPU system doing exactly what you did 20 years ago with a single 32-bit core, 1/5th the transistor count and all in software.

When the US Government was forcing telecom by telecom to install taps into their business's core routing hubs Joseph Nacchio, the CEO at the time, dug his heels in demanding legal avenues to avoid turning his back on QWest's customers.

A static analyzer can follow data flow easily, but it requires quite a bit of thinking for the programmer to do the same!The core motivation for managing effects la Haskell is not mathematical purity: its software engineering.