wormhole
US/ˈwɝmˌhoʊl/
wormhole noun: a hole burrowed by a worm.
Noun
wormhole (plural wormholes)
- 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
- But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put a small peg in the hole.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 36
- 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
- Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!1979, Alan Dean Foster, Harold Livingston, directed by Robert Wise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, spoken by Commander Willard Decker (Stephen Collins)
- Synonyms:
- Einstein-Rosen bridge
- A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.
Verb
wormhole (third-person singular simple present wormholes, present participle wormholing, simple past and past participle wormholed)
wormhole meaning in Arabic, Malay, Indonesian and Vietnamese
wormhole in Arabic
- a shortcut between distant parts of space
- ثَقْب دُودِيّ ṯaqb dūdiyy, مَمَرّ دُودِيّ mamarr dūdiyy
wormhole in Malay
- a hole burrowed by a worm
- lubang cacing
- a shortcut between distant parts of space
- lubang cacing, lubang cecacing
wormhole in Indonesian
- a hole burrowed by a worm
- lubang cacing
- a shortcut between distant parts of space
- lubang cacing
wormhole in Vietnamese
- a shortcut between distant parts of space
- lỗ sâu, lỗ giun
Examples of wormhole in a sentence
- And Christopher Nolan is sending Matthew McConaughey through a wormhole in his new film, Interstellar.
- If she hyperspaced out to Tionisla or Lave the Courier would simply follow through her witchspace wormhole.
- The flitter tumbled from the shimmering throat of the wormhole transit route from Port Sol to Earthport.
Synonyms of wormhole
Forms of wormhole
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wormholes |
| alternative form | worm-hole |
| alternative form | worme-hole |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wormholes |
| present participle | wormholing |
| past participle | wormholed |
| past | wormholed |
Origin of wormhole
First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.
Questions about wormhole
- What does wormhole mean?
- Wormhole means a hole burrowed by a worm.
- What is wormhole in Arabic?
- Wormhole in Arabic is ثَقْب دُودِيّ (ṯaqb dūdiyy), مَمَرّ دُودِيّ (mamarr dūdiyy). See Wormhole meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is wormhole?
- Wormhole can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wormhole?
- Wormhole is pronounced /ˈwɝmˌhoʊl/ (US).
- What is the plural of wormhole?
- The plural of wormhole is wormholes.
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