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1. (n.) wormhole
a hole made by a burrowing or gnawing worm, as in timber or fruits.
2. wormhole
a theoretical passageway in space between a black hole and a white hole.
Etymology: (1585–95)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) wormhole
hole made by a burrowing worm
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) wormhole
a burrow made by a worm
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. wormhole
[from the wormhole
singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity theory]
1. [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a
routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a
different routine. This term is now obsolescent; modern operating systems
use clusters of wormholes extensively (for modularization of I/O handling
in particular, as in the Unix device-driver organization) but the preferred
techspeak for these clusters is ‘device tables’, ‘jump
tables’ or ‘capability tables’. 2. [Amateur Packet Radio] A network path using a commercial
satellite link to join two or more amateur VHF networks. So called because
traffic routed through a wormhole leaves and re-enters the amateur network
over great distances with usually little clue in the message routing header
as to how it got from one relay to the other. Compare
gopher hole (sense 2).
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