wormhole

Definition

A hole burrowed by a worm.

Etymology

First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.

Example Sentences

• "To fill with worme-holes stately monuments."
• "But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put a small peg in the hole."
• "[…]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"."