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ˈworm-hole
Also wormhole.
1. A hole made by a burrowing worm or insect in wood, fruit, books, etc.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 946 To fill with worme-holes stately monuments. 1599― Hen. V, ii. iv. 86 'Tis no sinister, nor no awk-ward Clayme, Pickt from the worme-holes of long-vanisht dayes. 1615Rowlands Melancholie Knt. 33 Old bookes, wherein the worm-holes doe remaine. 1684J. S. Profit & Pleas. United 167 As for your Float let it be of the lightest Cork you can get, clear from cracks or worme holes. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. VIII. 23 Others, whose time of transformation is also near at hand, fasten their tails to a tree, or to the first worm-hole they meet, in a beam. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-T. (1883) 261 An apple with a worm-hole. 1874Willshire Anc. Prints iii. 79 The worm-holes so frequently to be met with in the old crab and pear-wood blocks of the early masters.
2. Physics. A hypothetical interconnection between widely separated regions of space-time.
1957Misner & Wheeler in Ann. Physics II. 532 This analysis forces one to consider situations..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’. 1978Pasachoff & Kutner University Astron. xii. 326 Thus, in principle, mass that disappears in a black hole may emerge somewhere else. If the somewhere else is a distinct region in our universe, the connection is called a wormhole. 1981P. Davies Edge of Infinity ix. 179 The quantum disturbance will be so severe that even the topology of spacetime will alter. Instead of a ‘bumpy sheet’, it will display a foam-like structure, full of worm-holes and bridges.
Hence ˈworm-holed, a., perforated with worm-holes.
1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. 202 The resolution and persistence of the one, like sound timber wormholed and made shaky, as it were, by the other's infirmity of will and discontinuity of purpose. 1875‘S. Beauchamp’ N. Hamilton I. 166 ‘See, sir,’ he would say as he turned the chairs over with a rap on the floor, to shake the sawdust out. ‘There's the proof: worm-holed you see, sir, worm-holed’. |