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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

  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:
    • But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put a small peg in the hole. 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 36:
  2. (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:
  3. (slang) A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
wormholes Number=Plur lexicographic
worme-hole alternative lexicographic
worm-hole alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

black hole · white hole

Relateds

rabbit hole

Synonyms

Einstein-Rosen bridge

Translations (55)

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)

wikipedia: John Archibald Wheeler

wormhole en · VERB

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

  1. (transitive) To make porous or permeable through the formation of small holes or tunnels.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
wormholing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
worm-hole alternative lexicographic
worme-hole alternative lexicographic
wormholed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
wormholed Tense=Past lexicographic
wormholes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

wikipedia: John Archibald Wheeler