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Plural of router

regular plural

The plural of router is routers.

Forms of router

Singularrouter /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
Pluralrouters
Countablecountable

Routers in a sentence

  • 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.1963, Louis J. von Rago, Production Analysis and Control, page 476
  • The system benefits include reduced delivery costs, increased vehicle use, and improved route decision making by dispatchers and routers.1990, Mary Kay Allen, Omar Keith Helferich, Putting Expert Systems to Work in Logistics, page 66
  • The Internet is a fabric of computers connected by routers.From the entry fabric
  • Routers typically run headless, without a keyboard or monitor.2007, Carla Schroder, Linux Networking Cookbook, O’Reilly Media, published 2008, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry headless
  • I am talking about — of course — LED blinkenlights, the usually-blue glowing pimples that pepper routers, speakers, computers and even USB hubs.2011 June 6, Charlie Sorrel, “LightDims: Tiny Sunglasses for Blinkenlights”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2011. From the entry blinkenlights

Meaning of router

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

Full definition of router

Questions about the plural of router

What is the plural of router?
The plural of router is routers.
Is router countable?
Router is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: router (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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