magnetic core
(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories - each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit • Syn: core •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
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