tunneling
tunneling Lexical Profile
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American The act, process, or engineering work of excavating or constructing an underground passage through soil, rock, or other material.
"The civil engineering team completed the tunneling under the mountain ahead of schedule."
American In computer networking, a protocol technique that encapsulates private network data and protocol information within public network transmission units.
"Virtual private networks rely on secure tunneling to protect sensitive corporate data over the internet."
American In quantum mechanics, the phenomenon in which a subatomic particle passes through a potential energy barrier that it classically could not surmount.
"Scanning tunneling microscopes utilize quantum tunneling to image surfaces at the atomic level."
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