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.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.