tunneling

Noun

• The act of burrowing a tunnel.
• The practice of exploring tunnel.
• The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
• A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
• A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.

Verb

• Present participle of tunnel