wormhole
noun
worm·hole
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Definition of wormhole
1
: a hole or passage burrowed by a worm
2
: a hypothetical structure of space-time envisioned as a tunnel connecting points that are separated in space and time
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Examples of wormhole in a Sentence
We found tiny wormholes in the potatoes.
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As adults, the books open up a wormhole of questions — and that’s largely what devotees explore at Laurapalooza. — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, "Little House, Big Fans: These People Really, Really Love Laura Ingalls Wilder," 24 Aug. 2019 While Foster’s study of wormholes and her starstruck romance with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) was a solid place to start, further films didn’t allow her character to grow alongside her superhero counterpart. — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, "How Marvel's Female Thor Can Finally Do Natalie Portman Justice," 22 July 2019 The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and wormholes show up regularly as plot points in movies, books, TV shows. — Wired, "The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries," 14 July 2019 The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and wormholes show up regularly as plot points in movies, books, TV shows. — Quanta Magazine, "The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries," 26 June 2019 Season 2 concluded with the crew of the USS Discovery plunging their ship into a wormhole transporting them a whopping 950 years into the future — further into the future that the franchise has ever explored. — James Hibberd, EW.com, "Star Trek: Discovery reveals first photos from mysterious season 3," 20 July 2019 One possibility is that the creatures came from a wormhole in space from another point in the galaxy. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "The weird Upside Down science behind 'Stranger Things'," 4 July 2019 The crew is tasked with building a wormhole to the titular planet, a major job for the crew and one with massive political implications. — Everdeen Mason, Washington Post, "Weirdly Specific Mixtape Vol. 5: Science fiction for foodies," 24 June 2019 Perhaps each particle is free to fractionate into millions of dispersed parts in its own private cosmic wormhole, until a measurement forces it to become whole at some particular location, chosen probabilistically. — Quanta Magazine, "How to Tame Quantum Weirdness," 16 Feb. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wormhole.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for wormhole
wormhole
noun
English Language Learners Definition of wormhole
: a hole or passage made by a worm
technical
: a hole or tunnel in outer space that some people believe connects two very distant places
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