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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wormhole  \Worm"hole`\,  n. 
  A  burrow  made  by  a  worm. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wormhole 
  n  :  hole  made  by  a  burrowing  worm 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  wormhole  /werm'hohl/  n.  [from  the  `wormhole'  singularities 
  hypothesized  in  some  versions  of  General  Relativity  theory]  1. 
  [n.,obs.]  A  location  in  a  monitor  which  contains  the  address  of  a 
  routine,  with  the  specific  intent  of  making  it  easy  to  substitute  a 
  different  routine.  This  term  is  now  obsolescent;  modern  operating 
  systems  use  clusters  of  wormholes  extensively  (for  modularization  of 
  I/O  handling  in  particular,  as  in  the  Unix  device-driver  organization) 
  but  the  preferred  techspeak  for  these  clusters  is  `device  tables',  `jump 
  tables'  or  `capability  tables'.  2.  [Amateur  Packet  Radio]  A  network 
  path  using  a  commercial  satellite  link  to  join  two  or  more  amateur  VHF 
  networks.  So  called  because  traffic  routed  through  a  wormhole  leaves  and 
  re-enters  the  amateur  network  over  great  distances  with  usually  little 
  clue  in  the  message  routing  header  as  to  how  it  got  from  one  relay  to 
  the  other  Compare  {gopher  hole}  (sense  2). 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  wormhole 
 
  {back  door} 
 
 




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