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wormhole |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wormhole \Worm"hole`\, n. A burrow made by a worm. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wormhole n : hole made by a burrowing worm From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: wormhole /werm'hohl/ n. [from the `wormhole' singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity theory] 1. [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a different routine. This term is now obsolescent; modern operating systems use clusters of wormholes extensively (for modularization of I/O handling in particular, as in the Unix device-driver organization) but the preferred techspeak for these clusters is `device tables', `jump tables' or `capability tables'. 2. [Amateur Packet Radio] A network path using a commercial satellite link to join two or more amateur VHF networks. So called because traffic routed through a wormhole leaves and re-enters the amateur network over great distances with usually little clue in the message routing header as to how it got from one relay to the other Compare {gopher hole} (sense 2). From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: wormhole {back door}
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