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The center that holds everything together, right up until it spectacularly doesn't.
means The central or innermost part of something — the heart of a fruit, a planet, an argument, or a problem — on which the rest depends.
from From the Old French 'cuer,' meaning heart (itself from Latin 'cor,' the root behind 'cordial' and 'courage'). The leap from a beating heart to an apple's middle came through the idea of the vital center — the bit at the very middle that everything else is built around. The connection to Latin 'cor' is widely accepted, though the exact path into English is a little murky.
- earth's heart
- Inner core is hotter than the sun's surface
- solid spin
- Inner core may rotate at its own speed
- apple truth
- The core is just seeds plotting a forest
- reactor dread
- A meltdown means the core literally melts itself
- word root
- Likely from Latin cor, meaning heart
earth's core — iron-nickel center at 5,200°c, 3,480 km below surface
apple core — central seed chamber in apples, contains cyanogenic compounds
core memory — 1950s-1970s computer memory using magnetic ferrite rings