routes

Noun

route (plural routes)

1. A course or way which is traveled or passed.
   • The route was used so much that it formed a rut.
2. A regular itinerary of stops, or the path followed between these stops, such as for delivery or passenger transportation.
   • We live near the bus route.
3. A road or path; often specifically a highway.
   • Follow Route 49 out of town.
4. (figuratively) One of multiple methods or approaches to doing something.
   • If such an option is to viable over time, it needs to be protected against competitors. Having patent protection is one route. […] Another route is to have a programmatic investment strategy […]. Rolex has taken this route […]2010, Damien McLoughlin, David A. Aaker, Strategic Market Management: Global Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 156–7
5. (historical) One of the major provinces of imperial China from the Later Jin to the Song, corresponding to the Tang and early Yuan circuits.
   • The Chinese, ever since the first century of our era, have called the countries which we to-day name Kashgar and Sungaria, "routes." They referred them to their relative position on the two sides of the Tian-Shan, and called our Sungaria, Pe-lu, " northern route," and our Kashgar, Nan-lu, "...1908, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World
6. A specific entry in a router that tells the router how to transmit the data it receives.

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