Router

Quick meaning: Router is a noun meaning Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.

Meaning

Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.

More Meanings

1. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
2. A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
3. A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
4. A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
5. (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
6. (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
7. (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.

Example Sentences

He made an attractive edge on the table with a router.

The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.

An alternative is shown in which the carcase ends are grooved by routering.

The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.

Word Forms

• routers
• routering
• routered

Synonyms for router

Depending on context, synonyms include traveller.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include routing, switch, route, adapter, hub, cisco.

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