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route [n]

1)	an established line of travel or access

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itinerary path

2)	an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation

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road

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way access_road bend bypass bypath causeway clearway corduroy crest detour drive drive highway carrefour line pavement post_road roadbed roadway crosscut berm side_road skid_road speedway thoroughfare cart_track circle turnaround turnoff turnout

route [v]

1)	send documents or materials to appropriate destinations

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despatch road

2)	send via a specific route

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direct road itinerary

3)	divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"

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divert itinerary

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

/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.

(2001-05-26)

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