Tunneling
noun
1.
an underground passage.
2.
a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a city, mountain, river, harbor, or the like.
3.
an approximately horizontal gallery or corridor in a mine.
4.
the burrow of an animal.
5.
Dialect. a funnel.
verb (used with object), tunneled, tunneling or (especially British) tunnelled, tunnelling.
6.
to construct a passageway through or under:
to tunnel a mountain.
7.
to make or excavate (a tunnel or underground passage):
to tunnel a passage under a river.
8.
to move or proceed by or as if by boring a tunnel:
The river tunneled its way through the mountain.
9.
to pierce or hollow out, as with tunnels.
verb (used without object), tunneled, tunneling or (especially British) tunnelled, tunnelling.
10.
to make a tunnel or tunnels:
to tunnel through the Alps.
tunnel effect
noun
1.
Physics. a quantum-mechanical process by which a particle can pass through a potential energy barrier that is higher than the energy of the particle: first postulated to explain the escape of alpha particles from atomic nuclei.
noun
1.
an underground passageway, esp one for trains or cars that passes under a mountain, river, or a congested urban area
2.
any passage or channel through or under something
3.
a dialect word for funnel
4.
(obsolete) the flue of a chimney
verb -nels, -nelling, -nelled (US) -nels, -neling, -neled
5.
(transitive) to make or force (a way) through or under (something): to tunnel a hole in the wall, to tunnel the cliff
6.
(intransitive; foll by through, under, etc) to make or force a way (through or under something): he tunnelled through the bracken
tunnel effect
noun
1.
(physics) the phenomenon in which an object, usually an elementary particle, tunnels through a potential barrier even though it does not have sufficient energy to surmount the barrier. It is explained by wave mechanics and is the cause of alpha decay, field emission, and certain conduction processes in semiconductors
tunnel tun·nel (tŭn’əl)
n.
A passage located through or under a barrier.
tunneling
(tŭn’ə-lĭng)
See quantum tunneling.
tunes
see: light at the end of the tunnel
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