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noun
computer science A tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories.
synonym: core.
is a specific kind of: toroid, torus.
is a part of: core memory, magnetic core memory | RAM, random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, read/write memory.
domain category: computer science, computing.
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