Core or cores may refer to:

Science and technology

Core (anatomy) The core or trunk is the axial (central) part of an organism's body. In common parlance, the term is broadly considered to be synonymous with the torso, but academically it also includes the head and neck. Functional movements are highly depe ...

, everything except the appendages * 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 nuclear reactor core is the portion of a nuclear reactor containing the nuclear fuel components where the nuclear reactions take place and the heat is generated. Typically, the fuel will be low-enriched uranium contained in thousands of indi ...

, a portion containing the fuel components * Pit (nuclear weapon) or core, the fissile material in a nuclear weapon *

Semiconductor intellectual property core In electronic design, a semiconductor intellectual property core (SIP core), IP core, or IP block is a reusable unit of logic, cell, or integrated circuit layout design that is the intellectual property of one party. IP cores can be licensed to ...

(IP core), is a unit of design in ASIC/FPGA electronics and IC manufacturing * Atomic core, an atom with no valence electrons

Geology and astrophysics

* Core sample, in Earth science, a sample obtained by coring **

Ice core An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier. Since the ice forms from the incremental buildup of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper ones, and an ice core contains ic ...

* Core, the central part of a galaxy; see

Mass deficit A mass deficit is the amount of mass (in stars) that has been removed from the center of a galaxy, presumably by the action of a binary supermassive black hole. The density of stars increases toward the center in most galaxies. In small galaxies ...

* Core (anticline), the central part of an anticline or syncline *

Planetary core A planetary core consists of the innermost layers of a planet. Cores may be entirely solid or entirely liquid, or a mixture of solid and liquid layers as is the case in the Earth. In the Solar System, core sizes range from about 20% (the Moon ...

, the center of a planet ** Earth's inner core **

Earth's outer core Earth's outer core is a fluid layer about thick, composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core and below its mantle. The outer core begins approximately beneath Earth's surface at the core-mantle boundary and e ...

* 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 A magnetic core is a piece of magnetic material with a high magnetic permeability used to confine and guide magnetic fields in electrical, electromechanical and magnetic devices such as electromagnets, transformers, electric motors, generators, in ...

, 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 In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the algebraic interior or radial kernel of a subset of a vector space is a refinement of the concept of the interior. Definition Assume that A is a subset of a vector space X. The ''algebraic in ...

Arts, entertainment and media

* ''Core'' (novel), a 1993 science fiction novel by Paul Preuss *

Core (radio station) Core was a digital radio station broadcasting across the UK on the Digital One and streamed online. It was aimed at 16- to 24-year-olds with a focus on new music. Station history Core was originally owned by GWR Group (which became GCap Media ...

, 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", 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 2006–2007 name for the programming block on Five currently known as '' Shake!''

Music

* Core (band), a stoner rock band * ''Core'' (Stone Temple Pilots album), 1992 * ''Core'' (Persefone album), 2006 * "Core", a song by Susumu Hirasawa from Paranoia Agent Original Soundtrack * "The Core", 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 The Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais (Portuguese for ''Coordination of Special Assets''), best known by its acronym CORE, is the police tactical unit of the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State. It was formed on 4 July 1969 and is comparable ...

, Brazilian state police SWAT team * Digestive Disorders Foundation, working name Core *

Center for Operations Research and Econometrics The Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) is an interdisciplinary research institute of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) located in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Since 2010, it is part of the Louvain Institute of Data Analysis ...

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 * Congress of Racial Equality, United States civil rights organization * CORE (research service), a UK-based aggregator of open access content *

C.O.R.E. C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures was a Canadian film and television computer animation special effects studio based in Toronto, and founded at the end of March 1994. Its productions included fully animated television series and feature films. C.O.R ...

, 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

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 * Lithic core, in archaeology, a stone artifact left over from toolmaking * CORE (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Use) System, see CORE-OM