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Fundamental vs Core - What's the difference?

fundamental | core |

As nouns the difference between fundamental and core

is that fundamental is a leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of linear algebra while core is the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.

As an adjective fundamental

is pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.

As a verb core is

to remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

As an acronym CORE is

congress of Racial Equality.

As a proper noun Core is

the birth name of Persephone/Proserpina, the queen of the Underworld/Hades, and goddess of the seasons and of vegetation. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; and the wife of Hades.

fundamental

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of linear algebra.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary.
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  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}

    Derived terms

    * fundamentalism * fundamentalist * fundamentality * fundamentally * fundamentalness * fundamental analysis

    Synonyms

    * * See also

    core

    Translingual

    Adjective

    (head)
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  • Coordinate terms

    * basal

    Derived terms

    * core eudicots * core Malvales * core leptosporangiates * core Notholaena * core Caryophyllales * core Ericales * core Lamiales * core Acanthaceae * core Isoglossinae ----