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Synonyms for core

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Synonyms for core

a point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate

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Synonyms for core

a small group of indispensable persons or things

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the center of an object

the central part of the Earth

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

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

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data

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

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

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remove the core or center from

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I have used the shape of the core sample, its stratified nature and the colours of the sediment as key elements in the jewellery.
This revenue floor is equal to that of the 130th ranked firm in our core sample; thus, the strata of Canada-based neighbours include very large firms as well as firms similar in size to mid-sized FF firms.
When gas permeability was close to Klinkenberg perme-ability by improving mean pressure to cause b/pm to approach to zero, we define the pore pressure or backpressure at the outlet of the core sample as limit pressure.
To solve this problem, a British-Japanese team has extracted three new core samples from the bottom of the lake.
Godfrey & Lewis (2004) infested rice small plots with adults at various stages of rice seedling development, obtaining larval populations of up to 9.4 immatures per core sample. They found that infestation with adults at the 2 leaf stage produced 50% yield reduction.
Rocks Depth (m) of Catalogue numbers core samples Core sample Surface analogue GI Apatity Biotite gneiss 6849 22515 1-02 Muscovite-biotite 7913 26609 2-02 gneiss Biotite gneiss 8411 28938 4-02 Rocks Catalogue numbers Surface analogue IGEM Moscow Biotite gneiss PL-360 Muscovite-biotite PL-366 gneiss Biotite gneiss PL-367 Table 2 Modal composition (%) of all tested samples.
Of the 53 patients who underwent adenotonsillectomy or tonsillectomy, 44 (83%) had a positive surface swab and/or core sample; 9 patients (17%) were negative at both sites (table 1).
In each experiment, a core sample was first fully saturated with water.
A film shows the flowing river in close-up on the gallery wall and on the other Jo's life is laid out like a core sample of land from a geography class.
A presentation prepared by PTS' Patrick Plew described how the system quickly drills out a core sample from a bale.
Far more striking were the formal correspondences between the sculptures, video, installations, and photographs on view, as among the blown glass and papier-mache balloons or the small white polystyrene balls affixed to a coil of barbed wire in Untitled (Barbed wire), 2005, the circles projected on top of the world map in Map of the World, 1992/2005, and the core sample that made up Hole and Wall, 2006.
A core sample was taken through organic sediments from the edge of the Congaree river floodplain.
The Black Tuesday attack offered a core sample of our nation, through which we learned that both iron and gold remain abundant beneath the crust of our national character.