image' or `core file' produced by one are terms in favor. Some
varieties of Commonwealth hackish prefer {store}.

:core cancer: /n./ A process that exhibits a slow but
inexorable resource {leak} -- like a cancer, it kills by
crowding out productive `tissue'.

:core dump: /n./ [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by
Unix] 1. [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced
when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error.
2. By extension, used for humans passing out, vomiting, or
registering extreme shock. "He dumped core. All over the floor.
What a mess." "He heard about X and dumped core."
3. Occasionally used for a human rambling on pointlessly at great
length; esp. in apology: "Sorry, I dumped core on you". 4. A
recapitulation of knowledge (compare {bits}, sense 1). Hence,
spewing all one knows about a topic (syn. {brain dump}), esp.
in a lecture or answer to an exam question. "Short, concise
answers are better than core dumps" (from the instructions to an
exam at Columbia). See {core}.

:core leak: /n./ Syn. {memory leak}.

:Core Wars: /n./ A game between `assembler' programs in a
simulated machine, where the objective is to kill your opponent's
program by overwriting it. Popularized by A. K. Dewdney's column
in "Scientific American" magazine, this was actually devised
by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Dennis Ritchie in the
early 1960s (their original game was called `Darwin' and ran on a
PDP-1 at Bell Labs). See {core}.