Route
Pronunciation: rŌt or rout; 277
| n. | 1. | The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march. |
| Noun | 1. |  route - an established line of travel or access |
| 2. |  route - an open way (generally public) for travel or transportationSynonyms: road | |
| Verb | 1. | route - send documents or materials to appropriate destinations |
| 2. | route - send via a specific route | |
| 3. | route - divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders" |
| (networking) | route - /root/ The sequence of hosts, routers,
bridges, gateways, and other devices that network traffic
takes, or could take, from its source to its destination. As
a verb, to determine the link down which to send a packet,
that will minimise its total journey time according to some
routeing algorithm. You can find the route from your computer to another using the program traceroute on Unix or tracert on Microsoft Windows. |