route

Meanings

Noun

• A course or way which is traveled or passed.
• A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
• A road or path; often specifically a highway.
• One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
• One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
• A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.
• A race longer than one mile.

Verb

• To direct or divert along a particular course.
• to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.
• To send (information) through a router.

Related

Similar words

• lu, circuit, province

Origin

• From Middle English route, borrowed from Old French route, rote (compare modern French route), from Latin ruptus, from rumpere viam "to open up a path". As a Chinese administrative division, a .