Cpu vs. Core

Cpunoun

The central processing unit, that part of the electronic circuitry of a computer in which the arithmetic and logical operations are performed on input data, which are thereby converted to output data; it is usually located on the mainboard, or motherboard, of a computer. The CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached. Most personal computers as of 1998 had only one CPU, but some computers may have more than one CPU.

Cpunoun

(computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing; the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached

Corenoun

The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

Corenoun

The heart or inner part of a physical thing

Corenoun

The center or inner part of a space or area

Corenoun

The most important part of a thing; the essence.

Corenoun

(engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.

Corenoun

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

Corenoun

(computing) Magnetic data storage.

Corenoun

(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 multi-core processor).

Corenoun

(engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.

Corenoun

The inner part of a nuclear reactor in which the nuclear reaction takes place.

Corenoun

A piece of soft iron, inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.

Corenoun

A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.

Corenoun

A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.

Corenoun

(medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.

Corenoun

(biochemistry) The central part of a protein structure consisting in mostly hydrophobic aminoacids.

Corenoun

(game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.

Corenoun

(printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is winded.

Corenoun

(obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.

Corenoun

A miner's underground working time or shift.

Corenoun

: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.

Corenoun

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.

Coreverb

To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

Coreverb

To extract a sample with a drill.

Corenoun

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

Corenoun

A miner's underground working time or shift.

Corenoun

A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.

Corenoun

The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.

Corenoun

The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.

Corenoun

The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject; - also used attributively, as the core curriculum at a college.

Corenoun

The portion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.

Corenoun

A disorder of sheep occasioned by worms in the liver.

Corenoun

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.

Corenoun

A mass of iron or other ferrous metal, forming the central part of an electromagnet, such as those upon which the conductor of an armature, a transformer, or an induction coil is wound.

Corenoun

a sample of earth or rock extracted from underground by a drilling device in such a manner that the layers of rock are preserved in the same order as they exist underground; as, to drill a core; to extract a core. The sample is typically removed with a rotating drill bit having a hollow center, and is thus shaped like a cylinder.

Corenoun

The main working memory of a digital computer system, which typically retains the program code being executed as well as the data structures that are manipulated by the program. Contrasted to ROM and data storage device.

Corenoun

the central part of the earth, believed to be a sphere with a radius of about 2100 miles, and composed primarily of molten iron with some nickel. It is distinguished from the crust and mantle.

Corenoun

the central part of a nuclear reactor, containing the fissionable fuel.

Coreverb

To take out the core or inward parts of; as, to core an apple.

Coreverb

To form by means of a core, as a hole in a casting.

Coreverb

To extract a cylindrical sample from, with a boring device. See core{8}.

Corenoun

the center of an object;

Corenoun

a small group of indispensable persons or things;

Corenoun

the central part of the Earth

Corenoun

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;

Corenoun

a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill

Corenoun

an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality

Corenoun

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Corenoun

the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place

Corenoun

a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil

Coreverb

remove the core or center from;