Core or cores may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Core (anatomy), everything except the appendages
  • Core (laboratory), a highly specialized shared research resource
  • Core (manufacturing), used in casting and molding
  • Core (optical fiber), the signal-carrying portion of an optical fiber
  • Core, the central part of a fruit
  • Hydrophobic core, the interior zone of a protein
  • Nuclear reactor core, a portion containing the fuel components
  • Pit (nuclear weapon) or core, the fissile material in a nuclear weapon
  • Semiconductor intellectual property core (IP core), is a unit of design in ASIC/FPGA electronics and IC manufacturing
  • Atomic core, an atom with no valence electrons
  • Lithic core, in archaeology, a stone artifact left over from toolmaking

Geology and astrophysics

  • Core sample, in Earth science, a sample obtained by coring
  • Ice core
  • Core, the central part of a galaxy; see Mass deficit
  • Core (anticline), the central part of an anticline or syncline
  • Planetary core, the center of a planet
  • Earth's inner core
  • Earth's outer core
  • Stellar core, the region of a star where nuclear fusion takes place
  • Solar core

Computing

  • Core Animation, a data visualization API used in macOS
  • Core dump, the recorded state of a running program
  • Intel Core, 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, the primary memory technology used before semiconductor memory
  • Central processing unit (CPU), called a core
  • Multi-core processor, a microprocessor with multiple CPUs on one integrated circuit chip
  • Server Core, a minimalist Microsoft Windows Server installation option

Mathematics

  • Core (game theory), the collection of stable allocations that no coalition can improve upon
  • Core (graph theory), the homomorphically minimal subgraph of a graph
  • Core (group theory), an object in group theory
  • Core of a triangulated category
  • Core, an essential domain of a closed operator; see Unbounded operator
  • Core, a radial kernel of a subset of a vector space; see Algebraic interior

Arts, entertainment and media

  • Core (novel), a 1993 science fiction novel by Paul Preuss
  • Core (radio station), a defunct digital radio station in the United Kingdom
  • 90.3 The Core RLC-WVPH, a radio station in Piscataway, New Jersey, US
  • C.O.R.E. (video game), a 2009 NDS game
  • Core (video game), a video game with integrated game creation system
  • Core (DC Comics), a fictional character from DC Comics
  • The Core (Amphibia), a fictional character from the Amphibia TV series.
  • "CORE", an area in the Underground in the video game Undertale
  • "The Core", an episode of The Transformers cartoon

Film and television

  • Cores (film), a 2012 film
  • The Core, a 2003 science fiction film
  • The Core, the 2000–2002 name for the programming block on Five currently known as Shake!

Music

  • Core (album), by Stone Temple Pilots, 1992
  • Core (band), an American stoner rock band
  • Core, a 2006 album by Persefone
  • "Core", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack
  • "The Core" (song), a song from Eric Clapton's 1977 album Slowhand
  • "CORE", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale by Toby Fox

Organizations

  • Core International, a defunct American computer and technology corporation
  • Core Design, a videogame developer best known for the Tomb Raider series
  • Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais, Brazilian state police SWAT team
  • Digestive Disorders Foundation, working name Core
  • Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium
  • Central Organisation for Railway Electrification, an organization in India
  • China Open Resources for Education, an OpenCourseWare organization in China
  • Community Organized Relief Effort, a non-profit organization providing humanitarian relief
  • Congress of Racial Equality, United States civil rights organization
  • CORE (research service), a UK-based aggregator of open access content
  • C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, a computer animation studio
  • CORE System Trust, see CORE-OM

Places

United States

  • Core, San Diego, a neighborhood in California
  • Core, West Virginia
  • Core Banks, North Carolina
  • Core Sound, North Carolina

Other places

  • Corés, a parish in Spain
  • The Core Shopping Centre (Calgary), Alberta, Canada
  • The Core, a shopping centre in Leeds, England, on the site of Schofields

People

  • Earl Lemley Core (1902–1984), West Virginia botanist
  • Ericson Core, American director and cinematographer
  • Leopoldine Core, American poet and short story writer

Other uses

  • Core (architecture)
  • Co-ordinated On-line Record of Electors, central database in the United Kingdom
  • Coree or Cores, a Native American tribe
  • Korah, a biblical figure
  • Leadership core, concept in Chinese politics
  • Persephone, a Greek goddess also known as Kore or Cora (Greek κόρη = daughter)
  • Core countries, in dependency theory, an industrialized country on which peripheral countries depend
  • Core curriculum, in education, an essential part of the curriculum
  • CORE (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Use) System, see CORE-OM

See also

  • CORE (disambiguation)
  • Corre (disambiguation)
  • Corps (disambiguation)
  • Corium (disambiguation)
  • Kernel (disambiguation)
  • Nucleus (disambiguation)