Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. In quantum mechanics, the passing of a particle through a seemingly impenetrable barrier without a cause that is explainable by classical physics.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of burrowing a tunnel.
- n. The practice of exploring tunnel.
- n. physics The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
- v. present participle of tunnel.
Examples
“The deep bore tunneling is the most riskiest but clearly not the only piece of cost overruns.”
Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola
“I love how they used the ‘tunneling from the store next door’ device from Small Time Crooks to rape our skulls.”
“The probability of something like that happening (like the probability of tunneling from a vacuum A to vacuum B in your lifetime) is astronomically low.”
False Vacua I: The End of the Universe As We Know it « Imaginary Potential
“The top of the tunneling is in the form of the corbel arch, such as was used at the Mayan site of Palanque and elsewhere.”
“Yep, the big downside to tunneling is that they may start it when Charlottesville has become a suburb to Richmond, say, in 50 years.”
Lynch Clarifies Meadowcreek Parkway Opposition at cvillenews.com
“The best-known case of tunneling is the alpha decay of heavy atomic nuclei, which was explained as early as 1928.”
“Embassy in Tel Aviv Dalia Mogahed may be the most influential figure guiding the Obama Administration's Middle East outreach On Yom HaShoah, one woman's story of tunneling from a Polish work camp A writer wonders which neighbor will hide him when the next genocide happens A look at Anat Kamm, who leaked secret IDF documents to a Haaretz”
“Embassy in Tel Aviv Why anti-Zionism festers in a country otherwise known for its friendliness On Yom HaShoah, one woman's story of tunneling from a Polish work camp A writer wonders which neighbor will hide him when the next genocide happens A look at Anat Kamm, who leaked secret IDF documents to a Haaretz”
“Embassy in Tel Aviv Why anti-Zionism festers in a country otherwise known for its friendliness On Yom HaShoah, one woman's story of tunneling from a Polish work camp A writer wonders which neighbor will hide him when the next genocide happens A case for Walter Mosley's inclusion in the American Jewish literary canon”
“Black cites others including insider trading and "tunneling" -- using bank holding companies as conduits for monies transferred from banks to executives and their underlings.”
Danny Schechter: Crimes of Wall Street: Investigate Control Fraud
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zc0000 The corresponding tunneling event is PreviewCanExecute. Apr 22, 2010