Wormhole

Definitions

1. A hole burrowed by a worm.
2. A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.
3. A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.
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Examples

“To fill⟳ with worme-holes stately monuments.”

“But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put⟳ a small peg in the hole.”

“[…]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".”

“Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!”

“I think⟳ the wormhole that we used to travel⟳ here passed directly through this planet's sun.”

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