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What (who) is tunnelling - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Tunnelling; Tuneling; Tunelling; Tunneling (disambiguation)

tunnelling         
<networking> (US: "tunneling") Encapsulation of protocol A within protocol B, such that A treats B as though it were a data link layer. Tunnelling is used to get data between administrative domains which use a protocol that is not supported by the internet connecting those domains. (1997-03-26)
Tunnelling         
·- of Tunnel.
Tunneling (fraud)         
FINANCIAL FRAUD COMMITTED THROUGH THE TRANSFER OF ASSETS AND PROFITS OUT OF FIRMS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO CONTROL THEM
Tunneling (Czech)
Tunneling or tunnelling is financial fraud committed by "the transfer of assets and profits out of firms for the benefit of those who control them". In legal terms, this is known as a fraudulent transfer, such as when 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.

Wikipedia

Tunneling

Tunneling or tunnelling may refer to:

  • Digging tunnels (the literal meaning)
    • Hobby tunneling
  • Quantum tunneling, the quantum-mechanical effect where a particle crosses through a classically forbidden potential energy barrier
  • Tunneling (fraud), a fraud committed by a company's own management or by major shareholders
  • Tunneling protocol, transmitting one computer network protocol that is encapsulated inside another network protocol
Examples of use of tunnelling
1. That biochemical reactions involve quantum tunnelling isn‘t surprising, since tunnelling also happens in some inorganic reactions.
2. Until then, tunnelling had merely been used by both sides to detonate explosives under enemy lines.
3. Mr Rowlands stumbled across radio conversations between the thieves tunnelling into the bank vault and their rooftop lookout.
4. They apparently started playing in the hole on their own and began tunnelling horizontally from the bottom of the pit.
5. It is recognised as the leading manufacturer of tunnelling equipment in the world, according to trade groups.