tunneling
noun C2- The act of burrowing a tunnel.
- The practice of exploring tunnel.
- The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
- A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
- A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
Plural tunnelings
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