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The concrete matrix for the core was a 1-2-5 stone mixture made very wet.

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  1. noun The hard or fibrous central part of certain fruits, such as the apple or pear, containing the seeds.
  2. noun The central or innermost part: the hard elastic core of a baseball; a rod with a hollow core.
  3. noun The basic or most important part; the essence: a small core of dedicated supporters; the core of the problem. See Synonyms at substance.
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  • The orbital period of this core was a little over a million years, so it didn't have but a few thousand passes thru the inner system, and we have the perturbations in the inner system nailed down. —  AnalogSFF,October2007
  • Much of the complex dates to mid-20th-century expansion, but at the core is a taller —  Ecology of Absence
  • It seems the core is there but there isn't any GUI. —  Latest News from Open Source Magazine
  • Your core is your entire midsection that includes the muscles around your hips, waist, and back. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • This core is the centre of the stick's rotation, and pressing and holding A launches the stick using the momentum of its swing. —  Eurogamer
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  1. Middle English.

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  1. from Middle English core, a core, from Anglo-French core, Old French cor, coer, cuer, modern F. cœur, heart, = Provencal cor= Spanish cor (obsolete)=Portuguese cor (in de cor, by heart) = Italian cuore, from Latin cor (cord-) = English heart: see heart.
  2. from core, n.
  3. A dial. (unassibilated) form of chore = char, a job: see char, chore.
  4. Also cor; a more phonetic spelling of corps, from French corps, a body: see corps.
  5. Middle English: see chosen.
 

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