router

Meanings

Noun

• Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
• Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
• A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
• In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
• A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
• A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
• A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

Verb

• to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.

Origin

• Image:Cisco7600seriesrouter.jpg|thumb|Routers for routing information packets.
• Image:Linksys BEFSR41 Router 20040321.jpg|thumb|Router for connecting a LAN to the larger internet.
• Image:ChannelRouteSolution.png|thumb|Output of a channel router algorithm.
• route + -er.
• Image:Wood router jmc 2005 03 12.jpg|thumb|Router in carpentry.
• rout + -er.