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  • noun a method of finding paths from origins to destinations in a network such as the Internet, along which information can be passed
  • noun cutting a channel in a material such as wood using a router
  • verb Present participle of route.
  • verb Present participle of rout.

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Examples

  • Somehow or other Blue Goose took a wrong turn in the network, what they call a routing error.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • The work a router does it called routing, which is somewhat like switching, but a router is different from a switch.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • I reckon I'm going to just let this post serve as a reminder, and wait and see if the direct link has any effect in routing passing interest that converts to the donations required to spur the next release.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Matt Bassett, chair of the TOC, said a lookout noticed that trains were coming, but Metro's Operations Control Center never notified the workers of the change in routing as required as part of safety protocol.

    Metro: Workers were nearly hit on tracks last month Ann Scott Tyson 2010

  • NYSE spokesman Raymond Pellecchia Jr. said the change to Arca's routing is "better for the customer experience obviously," following the incidents with Anadarko and Washington Post, but because its other exchanges have designated market makers with obligations to keep trading orderly, the NYSE didn't see a need to alter their routing procedures.

    Spotlight Shines on Exchanges' Order Routing Donna Kardos Yesalavich 2010

  • Instead, I came up with a different mechanism which has the flexibility to have whatever routing is desired, in whatever direction is desired.

    A different linear transmission mechanism « The Half-Baked Maker 2010

  • Most of the routing is popular gambling routes, but the Grapevine route in California may be a real problem route.

    Matthew Yglesias » Boehner Slams Mythical Vegas HSR Project, Ignores Ohio Rail Opportunity 2009

  • Bassett said Metro's Operations Control Center had not notified the workers of the change in routing, as required under safety protocol.

    Metro workers in close call on tracks Ann Scott Tyson 2010

  • I reckon I'm going to just let this post serve as a reminder, and wait and see if the direct link has any effect in routing passing interest that converts to the donations required to spur the next release.

    Thoughts on Direct Distribution Experiments Hal Duncan 2010

  • And aviation is flexible not only in routing but in size of equipment used on given routes, in ways that rail cannot be.

    Matthew Yglesias » Runway Pricing 2009

  • The researchers wanted to find a way to do the seemingly impossible — to give the military the benefits of a global, high-speed communications network without exposing them to the vulnerabilities of the metadata that the network relied on to operate.Enter Onion routing. Onion routing has undergone many changes and refinements over the years, but the basic principle has remained the same: The routing information used to navigate the internet is first hidden under three layers of encryption, like a Russian doll. It is from these layers that onion routing gets its name. This “onion” of routing information is then sent into a network of onion routers: servers, or relays, located around the world that bounce the traffic around and between themselves. Each of these relays decrypts a layer of encryption to reveal the address of the next server in the network, until the final server reveals the destination of the traffic and makes a connection to the target web service. None of them can see both the origin and the destination of the traffic.

    The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy The MIT Press Reader 2025

  • This philosophy of a system open to the general public, in which small numbers of high-risk users could hide in cover traffic from more everyday users, underpins what became the onion routing paradigm, the predecessor to Tor.

    The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy The MIT Press Reader 2025

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