via
/ˈvaɪə/
via noun: a main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.).
Noun
- A main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
- A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
- An electrical connection which connects two or more layers on a printed circuit board or an integrated circuit.
Preposition
via
- By way of; passing through.
- They drove from New York to Los Angeles via Omaha.
- You can enter the building via the western gate.
- By (means of); using.
- I'll send you the information via e-mail.
- Under the assumptions of Proposition 5 the entropies h(τ) and H(k) are related via the following equation: […]2005, “Capacity Bounds For MIMO Poisson Channels With Intersymbol Interference, Appendix C”, in Enrico Forestieri, editor, Optical Communication Theory and Techniques, →ISBN, page 44
Interjection
- Away! Be off!
Proper noun capitalized: Via
Via (plural Vias)
- A surname.
via meaning in Urdu, Telugu, Arabic and Malay
via in Urdu
- by way of
- بَراہ barāh
via in Telugu
- by way of
- వయా vayā
via in Arabic
- by way of
- بِوَاسِطَة biwāsiṭa, عَن طَرِيق ʕan ṭarīq
- by (means of); using (a medium)
- بِـ bi-
via in Malay
- by way of
- melalui
- by (means of); using (a medium)
- melalui
More languagesFewer languages
- via in Indonesian
- via, melalui, lewat
Examples of via in a sentence
- A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023...
- White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been in contact via intermediaries with Curtis Yarvin, Politico Magazine reported this week.2017 February 10, Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2020:
Forms of via
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | vias |
| plural | viae |
| Preposition | |
| alternative form | viâ |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Vias |
Origin of via
Borrowed from Latin via (“road”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Possible doublet of way. The sense in electronics is also explained as vertical interconnect access.
Borrowed from Latin viā (“by the way (of)”), ablative singular of via (“way, road”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Compare typologically Polish drogą, Russian путём (putjóm).
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Questions about via
- What does via mean?
- Via means a main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.).
- What is via in Urdu?
- Via in Urdu is بَراہ (barāh). See Via meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use via in a sentence?
- A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- What part of speech is via?
- Via can be a noun, a preposition, an interjection or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce via?
- Via is pronounced /ˈvaɪə/.
- What is the plural of via?
- The plural of via is vias.
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