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magnetic core

American  

noun

  1. Computers. core.

  2. Electricity. core.


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After winding, the copper coils are lowered by crane around a magnetic core made from hundreds of stacked sheets of millimeters-thin electrical steel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

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.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2016

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.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2016

With each drive, he blasted a half dozen nails into its housing, then picked it up, and shook it against his ear to listen for the telltale rattle of its shattered magnetic core.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2015

In PDP-3, 511 registers of the main magnetic core memory are available for use as automatic index registers.

From Preliminary Specifications: Programmed Data Processor Model Three (PDP-3) October, 1960 by Digital Equipment Corporation

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