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wormhole

noun
/ˈwɝmˌhoʊl/US

Etymology

First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.

  1. derived from van Hole
  2. derived from hóll
  3. borrowed from Hole
  4. derived from *hulwiją✻
  5. derived from *hulwī✻
  6. derived from holh
  7. compounded as wormhole — “worm + hole”

Definitions

  1. A hole burrowed by a worm.

    • To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.
    • But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put a small peg in the hole.

  2. A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light…

    A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

    • […]where there is a net flux of lines of force, through what topologists would call "a handle" of the multiply-connected space, and what physicists might perhaps be excused for more vividly terming a "wormhole".
    • Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!
    • I think the wormhole that we used to travel here passed directly through this planet's sun.

  3. A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to…

    A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To make porous or permeable through the formation of small holes or tunnels.

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