Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data;
now superseded by semiconductor memories;
- Example: "each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit"[syn: core, magnetic core]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
magnetic core
n 1: (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superseded by semiconductor memories; "each core has three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" [syn: core, magnetic
core]