magnetic core

noun

1. Computers.,  core.

2. Electricity.,  core.

Example Sentences

Current transformers use copper windings surrounding a magnetic core to amplify the magnetic field generated by the coil.

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Eventually, the current can hit high-voltage transformers, the spine of the power grid, and overwhelm their magnetic cores.

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He was also one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, an efficient form of computer memory that dominated the computer industry for more than two decades.

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In this production you’re seldom aware of the threatening but magnetic core of quiet that always lurks beneath the words, especially in the first crucial quarter of its uninterrupted 80 minutes.

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Work at America’s research universities led to the first magnetic core random access memory, a predecessor to dynamic RAM, and to lithium ion batteries.

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