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English noun: magnetic core

1. magnetic core (artifact) (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories


SamplesEach core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit.


Synonymscore


Broader (hypernym)toroid, torus


Part meronymcore memory, magnetic core memory, RAM, random access memory, random memory, random-access memory, read/write memory


Domain categorycomputer science, computing









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