Scrabble & Words with friends points
- core is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
- core is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
- core is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of core
- (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories (noun)
Examples
- each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit
Synonyms
- magnetic core
- a small group of indispensable persons or things (noun)
Examples
- five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
Synonyms
- core group
- nucleus
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work (noun)
Synonyms
- burden
- effect
- essence
- gist
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience (noun)
Synonyms
- center
- centre
- essence
- gist
- heart
- heart and soul
- inwardness
- kernel
- marrow
- meat
- nitty-gritty
- nub
- pith
- substance
- sum
- an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality (noun)
Synonyms
- congress of racial equality
- a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil (noun)
- a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill (noun)
- remove the core or center from (verb)
Examples
- core an apple
- the center of an object (noun)
Examples
- the ball has a titanium core
- the central part of the Earth (noun)
- the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place (noun)
See definition of core in Merriam Webster