Tunneling
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tunneling is a noun meaning The act of burrowing a tunnel.
Meaning
The act of burrowing a tunnel.
More Meanings
- The practice of exploring tunnel.
- (physics) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
- (finance) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
- present participle and gerund of tunnel
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
Word Forms
- tunnelings
- tunnelling
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include burrow, drilling, pipeline, wormhole, mining, excavating.
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