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Core catcher
A core catcher is a passive severe-accident device in a nuclear plant that catches molten corium after reactor pressure vessel failure and cools it, protecting the containment.
Core damage frequency
Core damage frequency (CDF) is a nuclear regulatory risk metric expressing the likelihood that an accident damages reactor fuel, derived from a Level 1 probabilistic risk assessment.
Core dump
A core dump (or crash dump) is a file recording a process's memory at the moment it terminates abnormally, used by developers for post-mortem debugging.
Core Laboratories
Core Laboratories is a Delaware-incorporated oilfield services company founded in Dallas in 1936 that measures reservoir rocks and fluids to help oil and gas producers enhance hydrocarbon recovery.
Core Lithium
Core Lithium Ltd is an Australian hard-rock lithium mining company that owns the Finniss Lithium Operation southwest of Darwin, restarted in 2026 after a 2024 suspension.
Core management (remanufacturing)
Core management is the set of practices by which remanufacturers acquire, grade, price, store, and plan production around cores, the used products and components that serve as remanufacturing's raw material.
Core ML
Core ML is Apple's machine learning framework for running and training models on Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, and Mac, announced at WWDC in 2017.
CoRE MOF 2019 database
The CoRE MOF 2019 database is a curated collection of over 14,000 experimental metal–organic framework crystal structures, 12,020 of them porous, prepared for molecular simulation.
Core Scientific
Core Scientific is an American data center company founded in 2017 that began as a bitcoin miner and now leases high-density colocation capacity for AI, chiefly to CoreWeave.
Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals is a set of Google metrics measuring real-world loading, interactivity, and visual stability, assessed from Chrome field data and used in Search's page experience ranking.
Core42
Core42 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Abu Dhabi's G42 technology group providing sovereign cloud services and AI infrastructure, formed in February 2024 and operating the Compass model platform.
Coreference resolution
Coreference resolution is the natural language processing task of grouping all expressions in a text that refer to the same entity, as in "Theresa May" and "she".
CorelDRAW
CorelDRAW is a vector illustration and page layout program developed by Corel, first released in 1989 for Windows and now sold as the centerpiece of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite.
CoreMark
CoreMark is an industry-standard benchmark developed by EEMBC and released in 2009 that measures the performance of processor cores and microcontrollers, producing a single-number score for quick comparisons.
CoreSite
CoreSite is an American data center colocation and interconnection company founded in 2001, operating 30 data centers in 11 US markets and owned by American Tower since December 2021.
CoreWeave
CoreWeave is an American cloud-computing company renting large NVIDIA GPU clusters for AI training and inference, founded in 2017 and listed on Nasdaq in 2025.
CoreWeave IPO
The CoreWeave IPO was the March 2025 initial public offering of AI-focused GPU cloud provider CoreWeave, which listed on Nasdaq under ticker CRWV at $40 per share, raising $1.5 billion.
CoreWeave–Core Scientific acquisition
The CoreWeave–Core Scientific acquisition was a $9 billion all-stock deal, announced July 7, 2025, for the data-center operator hosting much of CoreWeave's AI capacity; shareholders rejected it in October 2025.
CoreWeave–Meta compute agreement
The CoreWeave–Meta compute agreement is a pair of contracts under which CoreWeave supplies Meta with dedicated GPU cloud capacity, worth about $14.2 billion in 2025 and $21 billion in 2026.
Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle is a ruined royal castle at Corfe Castle village in Dorset, England, built by William the Conqueror and slighted by Parliamentary forces in 1646.
Corgi (insurance company)
Corgi is a San Francisco-based, venture-backed insurance carrier for startups, founded by Emily Yuan and Nico Laqua in 2024, valued at a reported $4 billion by July 2026.
Cori (supercomputer)
Cori was a Cray XC40 supercomputer at NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, with a peak of about 30 petaflops, serving from 2015 until its retirement on May 31, 2023.
Corian
Corian is a DuPont brand of solid surface material, an acrylic polymer filled with the mineral alumina trihydrate, developed in 1967 and used for countertops, sinks, and cladding.
Coricancha
Coricancha, in Quechua Quri Kancha meaning "golden enclosure", was the principal religious temple of the Inca Empire, dedicated to Inti, the Sun god, at the center of Cusco, Peru.
Corindus Vascular Robotics
Corindus Vascular Robotics was a Waltham, Massachusetts medical device company whose CorPath 200 and CorPath GRX robots performed catheter procedures; Siemens Healthineers acquired it in 2019.
Corinth Canal
The Corinth Canal (Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου) is a sea-level ship canal in Greece connecting the Saronic and Corinthian gulfs across the Isthmus of Corinth, built between 1882 and 1893.
Corinthian leather
Corinthian leather is a marketing term coined in 1974 by the agency Bozell for Chrysler's upholstery, made famous by Ricardo Montalbán's Cordoba commercials and remembered as luxurious-sounding nonsense.
Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is the classical architectural order whose slender columns carry capitals of two rows of acanthus leaves, adopted and standardized by the Romans from the second century BCE.
Corium (nuclear reactor)
Corium is the once-molten material formed during a nuclear reactor meltdown, a mixture of nuclear fuel, fission products, control rods, and structural materials, known from Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Cork Airport
Cork Airport, also known as Cork International Airport (Aerfort Chorcaí), is Ireland's second largest airport, 6.5 km south of Cork city. Opened in 1961, it handled 3.46 million passengers in 2025.