routing

routing

[′rüd·iŋ]

(communications)

The assignment of a path by which a message will travel to its destination.

(engineering)

A manufacturing process in which wooden parts are fabricated in various configurations; in high-speed industrial applications, an overhead cutting tool drills into the workpiece and then cuts the desired interior shape.

(graphic arts)

In letterpress printing, the removal of the nonprinting areas of a plate.

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Routing

The cutting away of wood to shape a molding or other piece of millwork.

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routing

(tool)

/row'ting/ Using a kind of rotating cutting tool called a router, pronounced /row't*/. In the USA a router, pronounced /row't*/, is also a network device that performs "routing". In the UK, the network device is pronounced /roo't*/ and what it does is spelled "routeing".

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routing

Forwarding data to its destination. In some parts of the English-speaking world, people say "rooting" instead of routing and "rooter" instead of router. See router, intermediate node routing and DNS.

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