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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In quantum mechanics, the passing of a particle through a seemingly impenetrable barrier without a cause that is explainable by classical physics.
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- noun The act of burrowing a
tunnel . - noun The practice of exploring tunnel.
- noun physics The
quantum mechanical passing of aparticle through an energybarrier . - verb Present participle of
tunnel .
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Examples
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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 2010
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I love how they used the ‘tunneling from the store next door’ device from Small Time Crooks to rape our skulls.
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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 2008
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 2003
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The best-known case of tunneling is the alpha decay of heavy atomic nuclei, which was explained as early as 1928.
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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
Tablet Magazine Marc Tracy 2010
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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
Tablet Magazine Marc Tracy 2010
zc0000 commented on the word tunneling
The corresponding tunneling event is PreviewCanExecute.
April 22, 2010