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 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

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#Closed linear operators, Unbounded operator * Core, a radial kernel of a subset of a vector space; see Algebraic interior

Arts, entertainment and media

* Core (novel), ''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), ''C.O.R.E.'' (video game), a 2009 NDS game * Core (video 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 ''List of The Transformers episodes#Season 2 (1985–86), The Transformers'' cartoon

Film and television

* Cores (film), ''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), ''Core'' (Stone Temple Pilots album), 1992 * Core (Persefone album), ''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 Undertale Soundtrack, 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 * Congress of Racial Equality, United States civil rights organization * CORE (research service), a UK-based aggregator of open access content * C.O.R.E., 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 (department store), 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