1.the center of an object;
the ball has a titanium core
2.a small group of indispensable persons or things;
five periodicals make up the core of their publishing program
3.the central part of the Earth
4.the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
the gist of the prosecutor's argument
5.a cylindrical sample of soil or rock obtained with a hollow drill
6.the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
7.the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place
8.a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
1.remove the core or center from;
core an apple
中国开放教育资源协会(China Open Resources for Education 简称 CORE)成立于2003年10月,系非盈利机构,是一个以部分中国大学及全国省级广播电视大学为成员的联合体。 CORE是在中国走向信息化和教育国际化,国际教育资源共享运动潮流的推动下诞生的。2003年9月,IET基金会(International Engineering Technology Foundation简称IETF)、麻省理工学院(Massachusetts Institute of Technology简称MIT)和北京交通大学在北京共