🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

trou de ver

Pronunciation / Transliteration: tru də vɛʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Wormhole/ˈwɜːrm.hoʊl/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le vaisseau spatial a traversé un trou de ver pour gagner l'autre galaxie."

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As noun
  1. 1

    A hypothetical tunnel connecting two different points in spacetime, often used in science fiction as a method of faster-than-light travel.

    "The spaceship attempted to travel across the galaxy by entering a wormhole."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined by the American theoretical physicist John Wheeler in 1957, formed by analogy with a worm boring through an apple, representing a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime.

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