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Tunneling logo #21000[fraud] Tunneling, or tunnelling (see spelling differences), is a colloquial term for a specific kind of financial fraud. It is defined as `the transfer of assets and profits out of firms for the benefit of those who control them`. For example, a group of major shareholders or the management of a publicly traded company orders that company ...
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Tunneling logo #22049Tunneling is a virus technique designed to prevent anti-virus applications from working correctly. Anti-virus programs work by intercepting the operating system before it can execute a virus. Tunneling viruses try to intercept the actions before the anti-virus software can detect the malicious code. New anti-virus programs can recognize many viruse...
Found on http://home.mcafee.com/virusinfo/glossary?ctst=1#

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Tunneling logo #21002• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tunnel
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tunneling logo #21003in physics, passage of minute particles through seemingly impassable force barriers. The phenomenon first drew attention in the case of alpha decay, ... [5 related articles]
Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/92

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tunneling logo #21439the penetration of a particle into a classically-forbidden region.
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tunneling logo #21160A phenomenon in quantum mechanics in which a jump can take place from one allowed energy state to another across a barrier of intermediate states that is forbidden by energy conservation in classical physics.
Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/tunneling.html

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Tunneling logo #21690Quantum mechanical concept whereby an electron is found on the opposite side of an insulating barrier without having passed through or around the barrier.
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