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 `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).
Related:
- gopher hole n.
1. Any access to a gopher. 2. [Amateur
Packet Radio] The terrestrial analog of a wormhole (sense
2),
from which this term was coined. A gopher hole links... - smart terminal n.
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An unwanted and unintended property of a program or
piece of hardware,
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[common] A hole in the security of a
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The motivation for such holes is not always sinister... - glitch /glich/
[very common; from German `glitschig' to
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[from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP... - cyberspace /si:'br-spays`/ n.
1. Notional
`information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with
brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks';
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