wormhole en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈwɝmˌhoʊl/ (General-American)
Etymology
First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.
Meanings
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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:
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(qualifier:relativity) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.
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):I think the wormhole that we used to travel here passed directly through this planet's sun.
2001, Ron Wilkerson, “Red Sky”, in Martin Wood, director, Stargate SG-1, season 5, episode 5, spoken by Captain Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping):[…]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:
- (slang) A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.
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| worme-hole | alternative | lexicographic | |
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ja ワームホール (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ms lubang cecacing (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · cmn 蠹孔 (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · pt túnel espacial (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · sh црвото̀чина (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · fr trou de ver (a hole burrowed by a worm) · vi lỗ giun (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · pl otwór wygryziony przez robaka (a hole burrowed by a worm) · cmn 蛀孔 (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ga poll péiste (a hole burrowed by a worm) · pl tunel czasoprzestrzenny (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · is ormagöng (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ms lubang cacing (a hole burrowed by a worm) · cmn 蟲洞 /虫洞 (a hole burrowed by a worm) · az soxulcan dəliyi (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · fr trou de ver (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ka ჭიის ხვრელი (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · sv maskhål (a hole burrowed by a worm) · sv maskhål (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · cs červí díra (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ko 웜홀 (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · mk црвоточина (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · pt fenda espacial (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · es agujero de gusano (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ru червото́чина (a hole burrowed by a worm) · ru червото́чина (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · de Wurmloch (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ru крото́вая нора́ (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · sh crvotòčina (a hole burrowed by a worm) · mk црвоточина (a hole burrowed by a worm) · pt buraco de verme (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · vi lỗ sâu (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ru крото́вина (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · it cunicolo (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · fi madonreikä (a hole burrowed by a worm) · es agujero de gusano (a hole burrowed by a worm) · hu féreglyuk (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · id lubang cacing (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · de Wurmloch (a hole burrowed by a worm) · sh crvotòčina (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · sh црвото̀чина (a hole burrowed by a worm) · ar مَمَرّ دُودِيّ (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · fi madonreikä (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · he חֹר תּוֹלַעַת (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · eu zizare zulo (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · he חור תולעת (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · pt buraco de minhoca (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · tr solucan deliği (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ms lubang cacing (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · id lubang cacing (a hole burrowed by a worm) · ca forat de cuc (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · hu féregjárat (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · cmn 蟲洞 /虫洞 (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ga poll péiste (a shortcut between distant parts of space) · ar ثَقْب دُودِيّ (a shortcut between distant parts of space)