crossover vs tunnel

crossover

noun
  • A place where one thing crosses over another. 

  • A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience. 

  • A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating. 

  • The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature. 

  • The means by which the crossing is made. 

  • An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent. 

  • A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes. 

  • A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them. 

  • An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports. 

  • The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis. 

  • A crossover dribble. 

adj
  • Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other. 

tunnel

noun
  • A passage through or under some obstacle. 

  • An underground or underwater passage. 

  • A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow. 

  • A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel. 

  • The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue. 

  • A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure. 

  • Anything that resembles a tunnel. 

  • A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel. 

verb
  • To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow. 

  • To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol). 

  • To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use. 

  • To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount. 

  • To dig a tunnel. 

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