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router

See also: Router

English edit

 
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Etymology 1 edit

 
Routers for routing information packets.
 
Router for connecting a LAN to the larger internet.
 
Output of a channel router algorithm.

route +‎ -er.

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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, 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, 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.
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  • → Japanese: ルーター, ルータ
  • → Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)
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Etymology 2 edit

 
Router in carpentry.

rout +‎ -er.

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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.
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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.

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Borrowed from English router.

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router m (plural routers, diminutive routertje n)

  1. (Internet) router (networking device)

French edit

Etymology edit

From route +‎ -er.

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router

  1. to route

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Conjugation of router (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple router
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple routant
/ʁu.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle routé
/ʁu.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present route
/ʁut/ 		routes
/ʁut/ 		route
/ʁut/ 		routons
/ʁu.tɔ̃/ 		routez
/ʁu.te/ 		routent
/ʁut/
imperfect routais
/ʁu.tɛ/ 		routais
/ʁu.tɛ/ 		routait
/ʁu.tɛ/ 		routions
/ʁu.tjɔ̃/ 		routiez
/ʁu.tje/ 		routaient
/ʁu.tɛ/
past historic2 routai
/ʁu.te/ 		routas
/ʁu.ta/ 		routa
/ʁu.ta/ 		routâmes
/ʁu.tam/ 		routâtes
/ʁu.tat/ 		routèrent
/ʁu.tɛʁ/
future routerai
/ʁu.tʁe/ 		routeras
/ʁu.tʁa/ 		routera
/ʁu.tʁa/ 		routerons
/ʁu.tʁɔ̃/ 		routerez
/ʁu.tʁe/ 		routeront
/ʁu.tʁɔ̃/
conditional routerais
/ʁu.tʁɛ/ 		routerais
/ʁu.tʁɛ/ 		routerait
/ʁu.tʁɛ/ 		routerions
/ʁu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		routeriez
/ʁu.tə.ʁje/ 		routeraient
/ʁu.tʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present route
/ʁut/ 		routes
/ʁut/ 		route
/ʁut/ 		routions
/ʁu.tjɔ̃/ 		routiez
/ʁu.tje/ 		routent
/ʁut/
imperfect2 routasse
/ʁu.tas/ 		routasses
/ʁu.tas/ 		routât
/ʁu.ta/ 		routassions
/ʁu.ta.sjɔ̃/ 		routassiez
/ʁu.ta.sje/ 		routassent
/ʁu.tas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — route
/ʁut/ 		— routons
/ʁu.tɔ̃/ 		routez
/ʁu.te/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

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router m inan

  1. (Internet) router (device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet)
    Synonym: trasownik

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Declension of router
singular plural
nominative router routery
genitive routera routerów
dative routerowi routerom
accusative router routery
instrumental routerem routerami
locative routerze routerach
vocative routerze routery

Further reading edit

  • router in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • router in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Unadapted borrowing from English router.

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router m (plural routers or router)

  1. router
    Synonyms: enrutador, direccionador, encaminador

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router c

  1. (telecommunications) a router

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Declension of router 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative router routern routrar routrarna
Genitive routers routerns routrars routrarnas

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router

  1. definite singular of route

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