wormhole : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wormhole	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for wormhole
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wormhole n hole made by a burrowing worm
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wormhole \Worm"hole`\, n. A burrow made by a worm.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
wormhole {back door}