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worm-hole

worm-hole is the alternative form of wormhole.

Meaning of wormhole

Noun

wormhole (plural wormholes)

  1. A hole burrowed by a worm.
    • To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC
  2. (relativity) 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".1957 December, Charles W. Misner, John Archibald Wheeler, “Classical Physics as Geometry”, in Annals of Physics, volume 2, number 6, pages 525–603
  3. (slang) A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.

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Forms of worm-hole

pluralworm-holes

Questions about worm-hole

What is worm-hole the alternative form of?
Worm-hole is the alternative form of wormhole.

Words near worm-hole in the dictionary

  1. worm's-eye views
  2. worm-eaten
  3. worm-eating warbler
  4. worm-eating warblers
  5. worm-food
  6. worm-hole
  7. worm-holes
  8. worm-like
  9. worm-like chain
  10. worm-ridden
  11. worm-shell

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