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worme-hole

worme-hole is the obsolete 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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Questions about worme-hole

What is worme-hole the obsolete form of?
Worme-hole is the obsolete form of wormhole.

Words near worme-hole in the dictionary

  1. wormballs
  2. Wormbridge
  3. wormcast
  4. wormcasts
  5. worme
  6. worme-hole
  7. wormed
  8. wormed out
  9. Wormegay
  10. Wormeley
  11. Wormeleys

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