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routing

Forwarding data to its destination. See router, intermediate node routing and DNS.

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.
(tool)routing - /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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This sight, together with the routing of the enemy's left wing by Prince Edward, so cheered and inspired the royalists that the two remaining divisions took up the attack with refreshed spirits so that what a moment before had hung in the balance now seemed an assured victory for King Henry.
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The view which their hurried routing disclosed filled me with apprehension and with rage.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr.
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