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• present participle of tunnel.

tunneling

American  

[tuhn-uhl-ing] / ˈtʌn əl ɪŋ /

noun

• tunnelings
  plural

1. the act or process of creating a tunnel.

2. Physics. in quantum mechanics, the phenomenon in which a particle passes through a potential barrier that it would not be able to cross under classical physics; the probability of tunneling depends on the thickness of the barrier and the energy of the particle.

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tunneling Scientific  

/ tŭn′ə-lĭng /

1. See quantum tunneling

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• cotunneling
  noun
• anti-tunneling
  adjective
• non-tunneling
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• tunnelings
  plural

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Example Sentences

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tunneling tunnelings

However, those earlier designs operated on surfaces and relied on the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope to drive their movement.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Elon Musk continues to draw investment dollars — this time for a tunneling company that just raised $3 billion so it can help “solve traffic” via expensive underground tunnels.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

The Boring Company, a tunneling startup that works closely with Tesla, just raised $3 billion through a private funding round.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Elon Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company, made an unusual demand of some investors in its latest funding round: If they wanted in, they had to help build the business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

We are now tunneling below it from both sides, which is even harder to do.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

I108 thought it safe to assume that he had somehow stumbled upon Woodruff's tunnelings, and with that well-trained nose of his had smelled out their origin.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe

M. Ceres showed his enthusiasm for demolitions, tunnelings, constructions, reconstructions, and all other fruitful operations.

From Penguin Island by Anatole France

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