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plural wormholes
A hole burrowed by a worm. quotations examples
To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.
1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […]
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
(relativity) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel. examples
(programming, slang) A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.
third-person singular simple present wormholes, present participle wormholing, simple past and past participle wormholed
(transitive) To make porous or permeable through the formation of small holes or tunnels. examples