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).
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