Tunneling

Tunneling or tunnelling may refer to:

  • Digging tunnels (the literal meaning)
  • Quantum tunneling, the quantum-mechanical effect where a particle crosses through a classically-forbidden potential energy barrier
  • Tunneling (fraud), a fraud committed by a company's own management or by major shareholders
  • Tunneling protocol, transmitting one computer network protocol that is encapsulated inside another network protocol

Famous quotes containing the word tunneling:

    “Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaverlike tunneling to the top.”
    —Camille Paglia (b. 1947)