magnetic core
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(computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data; now superseded by semiconductor memories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
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- torus hypernym
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- magnetic core memory part holonym
- random-access memory part holonym
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- computing domain topic
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| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | computing |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | magnetic core memory |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | random-access memory |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | torus |