Wormhole

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wormhole \Worm"hole`\, n.
     A burrow made by a worm.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  wormhole
       n : hole made by a burrowing worm

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  wormhole
       
          {back door}