A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies.
coer
core
core
adj
Forming the most important or essential part.
noun
(automotive, machinery, aviation, 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.
(biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
(botany) Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
(computer hardware) 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 a multi-core processor).
(computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory.; magnetic data storage.
(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
(engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
(game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
(historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
(military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
(physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
A miner's underground working time or shift.
A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
The center or inner part of a space or area.
The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.
