Meaning

3 senses
  1. A hole burrowed by a worm.

    Wurmloch

    червото́чинаčervotóčina

    hole made by a burrowing worm

  2. A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

    Wurmloch

    крото́вая нора́krotóvaja norá, крото́винаkrotóvina, червото́чинаčervotóčina

  3. (slang)A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.

Examples

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  1. These two portals are connected via a wormhole.

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  2. The idea of interdimensional wormholes is pure science fiction.

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  3. The galactic military used wormholes to hop around the universe.

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  4. The ship will reach the wormhole in a few hours.

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  5. William used the flamethrower again to push the aliens into the wormhole.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
a hole burrowed by a worm:
a shortcut between distant parts of space:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a hole burrowed by a worm:

Origin

First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John A

First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.

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