• Czech: jaderník

• Czech: jádro

• Crimean Tatar: öz, özek
• Dutch: kern , binnenste
• Estonian: tuum
• Finnish: ydin (4,5,6), siemenkota (4), keskus (5)
• French: centre , noyau
• German: Kerngehäuse , Kern ; fig. das Innerste , Mark , Herz , Seele
• Hebrew: ליבה (liba) (4,6); לב (lev) (5)
• Italian: nucleo
• Japanese: 芯 (しん, shin), 中心 (ちゅうしん, chūshin)
• Korean: 골 (gol) (4,5,6,7)
• Latvian: serde (4,6,7,9)
• Romanian: miez
• Russian: ядро (jadró)
• Serbian: jezgro , srž
• Spanish: alma , esencia , núcleo
• Swedish: kärna (4,5,6)

Verb

1. To remove the core (4) of an apple.
2. To extract a sample with a drill.

Core may refer to:

• core, the single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit.
  • specifically, an apple core.
• planetary core, in planetary science, the center of a planet
• Core (or Kore), an alias of the goddess Persephone.

It may also refer to:

Science and academics

• Core (group), in mathematics, an object in group theory
• Core (functional analysis), in mathematics, a subset of the domain of a closable operator
• core (graph theory), in mathematics, the homomorphically minimal subgraph of a graph
• Core of a triangulated category in mathematics
• Core (economics), the collection of stable allocations that no coalition can improve upon
• Solar core, the region of the Sun where nuclear fusion takes place
• Lithic core, in archaeology, a stone artifact left over from toolmaking
• Core curriculum, in education, an essential part of the curriculum
• Core sample, in Earth science, a sample obtained by coring
• Core countries, in dependency theory, an industrialized country on which peripheral countries depend
• Core (anatomy), everything except the appendages

Computers and technology

• Semiconductor intellectual property core, part of a CPU design
• Multi-core (computing), a type of microprocessor design in which multiple processors coexist on the same chip
• Intel Core, in computing, a family of CPUs released by Intel
• Magnetic core memory, in computing, the primary memory
• Core dump, in computing, a record of the core memory
• Nuclear reactor core, a portion containing the fuel components
• Magnetic core, in electricity and electronics, ferromagnetic material around which wires are wound
• The signal-carrying portion of an optical fiber
• Foundry core or mold core used in casting processes (see sand casting and investment casting for applications)
• In programming languages, the parts of a language that are conventionally made available by all implementations of the language
• In computer networking, the main data transfer backbone of a network in certain topologies.

Media

• Core (album), by Stone Temple Pilots
• Core (Persefone album)
• Core (radio station), a digital radio station in the United Kingdom
• 90.3 The Core RLC-WVPH, a radio station in Piscataway, New Jersey
• The Core, a 2003 science fiction film
• Core Design, a videogame developer best known for the Tomb Raider series
• C.O.R.E., a computer animation studio

Places

• Core, San Diego, California, a neighborhood in the United States

Charities

• Core (Charity) is the working name of the Digestive Disorders Foundation, the only national UK charity funding research into all aspects of gut, liver and pancreatic diseases.

Acronyms

• Central Organization For Railway Electrification, an organization in India
• Congress of Racial Equality, United States civil rights organization
• Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education, United States non-profit organization
• Coordinated Online Register of Electors, central database in the United Kingdom
• Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) of the Catholic University in Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Region of Belgium
• Challenge of Reverse Engineering, a warez group
• Comment on Reproductive Ethics, a British pressure group

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