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The correct spelling is routers.
How to pronounce routers
noun
Say it like: Row-ter-s
The correct spelling is routers. Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another. For example: "The router directed the movement of the company's trucks."
Usage Examples
“The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.”
“The router was configured to forward packets outside of a certain range of IP addresses to its internet uplink port.”
“He made an attractive edge on the table with a router.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
- 2.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.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.
- 4.(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.
- 5.A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
verb
- 1.To hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
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