meaning of core dump
1. core dump [Common Iron Age jargon, preserved by Unix] 1. A copy of the contents of core, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error. 2. A complete account of a humans knowledge on some subject also brain dump, especially 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. [Jargon File] core gateway Historically, one of a set of gateways routers operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman BBN. The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway. Corel Corporation
2. computer science dump of the contents of the chief registers in the CPU