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- verb Present participle of
tunnel .
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Examples
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Quantum tunnelling is commonplace in the microscopic world.
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The word tunnelling refers to the situation where on the outside all appears fine, but when you dig deeper you realise that there is nothing there.
Czech English Words No 1 - Tunnelling Praguetory 2006
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The word tunnelling refers to the situation where on the outside all appears fine, but when you dig deeper you realise that there is nothing there.
Archive 2006-10-01 Praguetory 2006
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On the atomic level, on the other hand, tunnelling is a rather common phenomenon.
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A company's suppliers or partners often turn out to be owned or controlled by the company's own managers, a practice that lends itself to "tunnelling"-using outside businesses to milk the corporation.
The New Yorker James Surowiecki 2011
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A company's suppliers or partners often turn out to be owned or controlled by the company's own managers, a practice that lends itself to "tunnelling"-using outside businesses to milk the corporation.
The New Yorker James Surowiecki 2011
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Their hard work went into what Johnson has labeled "tunnelling" - insiders funneling money out of legitimate enterprises because they know the end of the bubble is near.
PopMatters 2009
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This behavior is called tunnelling; it is as if the particle has ‘dug’ through the potential hill.
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The term tunnelling refers to this wave-like property - the particle "tunnels" through the forbidden region.
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The tunnelling occurs when the particle changes from one that interacts strongly with a barrier and so cannot pass though it, into a particle that does not interact with the barrier and so passes through with ease.
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