router

English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Routers for routing information packets.

Router for connecting a LAN to the larger internet.

Output of a channel router algorithm.

to route + -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹuːtə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
• (US) IPA: /ˈɹuːtə(ɹ)/, IPA: /ˈɹaʊtɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ), -aʊtə(ɹ)

Noun

router (plural routers)

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

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

   • 1930, Edwin A. Godley and Alexander Kaylin, Control of Retail Store Operations^[1], page 213:

     When the router receives the package, he places the route number on it as well as on the triplicate part of the attached salescheck.

   • 1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control^[2], page 476:

     Obviously, the production control department might consist of one man or it might occupy a score of production control experts: routers, schedulers, expediters, and dispatchers.

   • 1990, Mary Kay Allen and Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics^[3], page 66:

     The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers.

2. (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.
3. (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.

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

4. (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.

Translations

Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another

• Swedish: logistiker (sv) c

Any device that directs packets of information using OSI layer 3

• Czech: směrovač (cs) m
• Danish: router (da) c
• German: Router (de) m
• Greek: δρομολογητής (el) (dromologitís) m

• Icelandic: beinir (is) m
• Marathi: राउटर (mr) (rāuṭara)
• Portuguese: encaminhador (pt)
• Spanish: router (es) m, enrutador (es) m, ruteador (es) m, direccionador (es) m

A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 路由器 (cmn) (lùyóuqì), 路徑器 (cmn), 路径器 (cmn) (lùjìngqì)

• Czech: směrovač (cs) m
• Danish: router (da) c
• Finnish: reititin (fi)
• French: routeur (fr)
• German: Router (de) m
• Greek: δρομολογητής (el) (dromologitís) m

• Icelandic: beinir (is) m
• Japanese: ルータ (ja) (rūta), ルーター (ja) (rūtā)
• Korean: 라우터 (ko) (rauteo)
• Portuguese: encaminhador (pt) m, roteador (pt)
• Russian: маршрутизатор (ru) (maršrutizátor) m, раутер (ru) (ráutɛr) m, рутер (ru) (rútɛr) m, роутер (ru) (róutɛr) m
• Spanish: router (es) m, enrutador (es) m, ruteador (es) m, direccionador (es) m
• Swedish: router (sv) c

See also

• firewall
• routing (EDA) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:routing (EDA)

Etymology 2

Router in carpentry.

to rout + -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/ X-SAMPA: /"raUt@(r)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɹaʊtɚ/, X-SAMPA: /raUt3r/
• Rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)

Noun

router (plural routers)

1. A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.

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

2. A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
3. A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.

Translations

power tool

• French: défonçeuse (fr)

• German: Oberfräse (de) f

See also

• wood router on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:wood router

Verb

router (third-person singular simple present routers, present participle routering, simple past and past participle routered)

1. To hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
   • 1952, John Hooper, Percy A. Wells, Modern Cabinetwork, Furniture and Fitments, page 132,

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

   • 2000, Ernest Joyce, Alan Peters, Patrick Spielman, Encyclopedia of Furniture Making, page 290,

     Figures 276: 10, 11 are typical sliding flush door pulls, the former routered out, but the latter can be turned in a lathe, while 276:12 is an oblong routered version.

   • 2007, Laurie J. Gage, Rebecca S. Duerr, Hand-Rearing Birds, page 352,

     Routered holes may also be filled with diluted maple syrup (1 part syrup to 9 parts water) to create a sap well for sapsuckers.

Anagrams

• tourer

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French

Etymology

route +‎ -er.

Verb

router

1. to route

Conjugation

   Conjugation of router (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		router			avoir routé
gerund		en routant			en ayant routé
present participle		routant
past participle		routé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	route	routes	route	routons	routez	routent
	imperfect	routais	routais	routait	routions	routiez	routaient
	past historic1	routai	routas	routa	routâmes	routâtes	routèrent
	future	routerai	routeras	routera	routerons	routerez	routeront
	conditional	routerais	routerais	routerait	routerions	routeriez	routeraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	route	routes	route	routions	routiez	routent
	imperfect1	routasse	routasses	routât	routassions	routassiez	routassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	route	—	routons	routez	—
1literary tenses

Related terms

• routage
• routeur

Anagrams

• retour, trouer