magnetic core

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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now superseded by semiconductor memories
- each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit
• Syn:
core
• Topics:
computer science, computing
• Hypernyms:
torus, toroid
• Part Holonyms:
magnetic core memory, core memory, random-access memory, random access memory, random memory,
RAM, read/write memory