Tunneling
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Tunneling may refer to:
- Digging tunnelTunnelA tunnel is an underground passageway, completely enclosed except for openings for egress, commonly at each end.A tunnel may be for foot or vehicular road traffic, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are aqueducts to supply water for consumption or for hydroelectric stations or are sewers...
s (the literal meaning) - Quantum tunneling, the quantum-mechanical effect where a particle crosses through a classically-forbidden potential energy barrier
- Tunneling (fraud)Tunneling (fraud)Tunnelling, or tunneling, is a colloquial term for a specific kind of financial fraud. A group of major shareholders or the management of a publicly traded company orders that company to sell off its assets to a second company at unreasonably low prices. The shareholders or management typically...
, a fraud committed by a company's own management or by major shareholders - Tunneling protocolTunneling protocolComputer networks use a tunneling protocol when one network protocol encapsulates a different payload protocol...
, transmitting one computer network protocol that is encapsulated inside another network protocol