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nothing, defined entirely by the something wrapped around it

means A hollow space, gap, or opening in or through something solid.

from From Old English 'hol,' meaning a hollow place or cavity, and rooted in a Proto-Germanic word also tied to 'hollow' itself — the two are close kin. The deeper Indo-European root carried the sense of covering or concealing, the idea of something tucked away in a hidden recess. So a hole began life less as 'a gap' and more as 'a place that hides.'

black hole
can rip stars into glowing spaghetti
donut math
a hole turns it into a torus
deepest dug
Kola Superdeep reaches 12 kilometers down
sinkhole speed
swallows whole houses in seconds
ozone hole
slowly healing after we banned chemicals
for instance

mariana trench — deepest ocean hole on earth at 11,034 meters in the western pacific

great blue hole — massive sinkhole in belize measuring 318 meters across and 124 meters deep

darvaza gas crater — burning natural gas crater in turkmenistan that has burned continuously since 1971

kimberly big hole — largest hand-dug hole in south africa, mined for diamonds from 1866-1914, 215 meters deep

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