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tunneling

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/ tŭnə-lĭng /

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Split tunneling lets you choose which of your apps use the VPN and which don’t.

From Salon

Because of these extreme conditions, widely used techniques like scanning tunneling spectroscopy and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy cannot be applied.

From Science Daily

But tunneling appears to be increasing at Pickaxe Mountain near Natanz, which Iran in 2020 declared a site for building centrifuges, central to uranium enrichment.

From The Wall Street Journal

For tech-savvy users, there’s a wealth of advanced settings tucked away in the menu, including protocol selection, kill switch customization and split tunneling rules.

From Salon

The knots ultimately unraveled through quantum tunneling, a process in which particles cross energy barriers that would be insurmountable in classical physics, as if they were passing through a wall.

From Science Daily