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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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories | ||
| Samples | Each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit. | ||
| Synonyms | core | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | toroid, torus | ||
| Part meronym | core memory, magnetic core memory, RAM, random access memory, random memory, random-access memory, read/write memory | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
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