core
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7.2
- noun
- /kɔr/
- Specialized
:
testigo (de perforación)
- Core samples have shown that beneath this bedrock is shale similar to the permeable shale in the Van der Lip disaster.
- core samples
- ice core
- soil core
In fact, here's what the cores look like with a drill.
- In fact, here's what the cores look like with a drill.
- So we are going to Mars and creating cores like this.
- And the Rover Perseverance is cashing rocks cores as we speak.
- So we, we kind of have learnt this from ice core data.
- They've never done this since to in the Great Pyramid to take a core sample from one of the casing stones.
Examples
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The low point of the expedition occurred when I attempted to get core samples of the trees.
Academic text (1991) -
All right, place the core very carefully.
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- Trying to take a core sample.
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Several traces of the metal had been found in the core samples in that area.
Fiction book (2000) -
For now, the Expedition 336 scientists are busy working with the cores that they recovered during the cruise.
Academic text (2012) -
In situ soil moisture percentages were measured at the location where the soil cores were collected.
Academic text (2008) -
The team collected a core sample from the soil to analyze its composition.
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Geologists often extract a core sample to study the layers of rock beneath the surface.
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During the drilling process, they carefully retrieved a core sample to assess the area's geological history.
Idioms
Compounds
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3.5
A small group of people who are most important in a larger organization or activity
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3.4
Strength in the muscles around your stomach and back that helps you stay steady and move
- Specialized
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6.1
A tool that cuts out a round piece from hard materials like concrete or rock
- Archaic
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8.3
A group of tiny magnetic rings used in old computers to store data
- Specialized
A hollow cutting cylinder used in a drill to remove a sample of rock or concrete
- Specialized
A machine that uses compressed air to pack sand into a box to make sand shapes for molds
- Specialized
A file that shows what is in a computer's memory when a program crashes to help find errors
- Specialized
A machine that makes sand shapes for metal casting by blowing sand into a mold
- Specialized
A machine in a metal workshop that forces sand into a mould to make cores
- Specialized
A small dangerous mass of radioactive metal used in early US tests that caused fatal accidents
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word core comes from Latin cor 'heart'; a geological core is a long, thin sample that shows the 'inside' or 'heart' of rock or ice, so scientists use it to study the past.