English Explanatory Dictionary

tunneling

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of burrowing a tunnel.
  2. The practice of exploring tunnel.
  3. The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
  4. A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
  5. A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of tunnel

Word forms

tunneling tunnelings tunnelling

Derived words

scanning tunneling microscope tunneling time
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