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acronym:

  • Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
  • Computing Research and Education Association
  • Congress of Racial Equality
  • Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
  • Corporate Responsibility
  • Council on Rehabilitation Education

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Noun:

  • A body of individuals; an assemblage.
  • A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
  • A Hebrew dry measure; a cor or homer.
  • A miner's underground working time or shift.
  • automotive A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself. Said to be an acronym for Cash On REturn, but that may be a backronym.
  • computers An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one
  • computers magnetic memory.
  • engineering The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
  • The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
  • The center or inner part, as of an open space; as, the core of a square.
  • The central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince.
  • The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.
  • The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject.

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Verb:

  • To extract a sample with a drill.
  • To remove the core (4) of an apple.

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