wormhole

English

Alternative forms

• worm-hole
• worme-hole†

Etymology

worm +‎ hole

Noun

wormhole (plural wormholes)

1. a hole burrowed by a worm
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

     To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.

2. (physics) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

Wikipedia

Related terms

• Einstein-Rosen bridge

Translations

a hole burrowed by a worm

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟲洞 (zh), 虫洞 (chóngdòng)

• Finnish: madonreikä
• French: trou de ver (fr) m
• German: Wurmloch n
• Portuguese: buraco de minhoca m

• Russian: червоточина (ru) f (červotóčina)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црвоточина f

  Roman: crvotočina f

• Spanish: agujero de gusano m

a shortcut between distant parts of space

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蟲洞 (zh), 虫洞 (chóngdòng), 蛀孔 (zh) (zhùkǒng), 蠹孔 (dùkǒng)

• Finnish: madonreikä
• French: trou de ver (fr) m
• German: Wurmloch n
• Hungarian: féreglyuk
• Italian: cunicolo m
• Japanese: ワームホール (wāmuhōru)

• Russian: кротовая нора f (krotóvaja norá) (mole hole), кротовина (ru) f (krotóvina), червоточина (ru) f (červotóčina)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: црвоточина f

  Roman: crvotočina f

• Spanish: agujero de gusano m
• Swedish: maskhål n

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• Georgian: ჭიანაჭამი (čianačami)