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absence with the audacity to define everything around it.
means The plural of hole — openings, gaps, or hollow spaces in or through something solid.
from From Old English 'hol,' meaning a hollow place or cavity, with roots in the Proto-Germanic 'hulan' and tied to the same family as 'hollow.' The deep idea here is emptiness shaped by what surrounds it — the word always pointed at the absence rather than the thing, a gap defined by its edges. Cousins survive across Germanic tongues, like German 'Höhle' (cave) and Dutch 'hol.'
- black hole record
- some spin at near light speed
- deepest dig
- humans only scratched 12km into Earth
- golf origin
- medieval Scots aimed at literal rabbit burrows
- ozone hole
- healing, expected closed by 2066
- donut math
- topologically identical to a coffee mug
great blue hole — sinkhole in belize, 984 feet wide and 407 feet deep, formed by limestone collapse
dean's blue hole — underwater sinkhole in the bahamas, 660 feet deep, world's deepest known blue hole
baikal ice hole — seasonal holes in lake baikal, russia, where seals surface to breathe through 1-2 meter thick ice