redirection

redirection

(operating system)

input/output redirection.

redirection

(World-Wide Web)

URL redirection.

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redirection

Diverting data from their normal destination to another; for example, to a disk file instead of the printer, or to a server's disk instead of the local disk. See virtual directory, symbolic link, shortcut, hijacking and redirector.

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