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wormholes

wormholes is the plural of wormhole.

wormholes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 wormholes

What is wormholes the plural of?
Wormholes is the plural of wormhole.

Words near wormholes in the dictionary

  1. wormgrass
  2. wormgrasses
  3. Wormhill
  4. wormhole
  5. wormholed
  6. wormholes
  7. wormholing
  8. wormhood
  9. wormian
  10. Wormian bone
  11. Wormian bones

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