WordNet: core, magnetic 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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"

• domain: topic computer science, computing

• hypernym toroid, torus

• part holonym core memory, magnetic core memory

• part holonym RAM, random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, read/write memory

core

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magnetic core

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