router

See also: Router

English

Etymology 1

Routers for routing information packets.

Router for connecting a LAN to the larger internet.

Output of a channel router algorithm.

From route ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹuː.tə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹu.tɚ/, /ˈɹaʊ.tɚ/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)

Noun

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.
4. (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.

5. (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.

Derived terms

• one-armed router
• onion router
• router on a stick

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: ルーター, ルータ
• → Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)

Translations

someone who routes or directs items from one location to another

• Finnish: reitittäjä
• Swedish: logistiker c

device that directs packets of information

• Belarusian: маршрутыза́тар m (maršrutyzátar)
• Czech: směrovač m
• Danish: router c
• Dhivehi: ރައުޓަރު sg (rauṭaru), ރައުޓަރުތައް pl (rauṭarutak̊)
• Estonian: ruuter
• Finnish: reititin (fi)
• German: Router (de) m
• Greek: δρομολογητής (el) m (dromologitís)
• Icelandic: beinir m
• Maori: pouara
• Marathi: राउटर (rāuṭar)
• Portuguese: roteador (pt) m
• Russian: маршрутиза́тор (ru) m (maršrutizátor)
• Spanish: router (es) m, enrutador m, ruteador m, direccionador m
• Ukrainian: маршрутиза́тор (uk) m (maršrutyzátor)

device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet

• Albanian: router m
• Arabic: راوْتَر m (rāwtar), مُوَجَّه (ar) m (muwajjah)
• Armenian: երթուղիչ (ertʻuġičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: yönləndirici
• Belarusian: маршрутыза́тар m (maršrutyzátar), ра́ўтар m (ráŭtar), ру́тар m (rútar), ро́ўтар m (róŭtar)
• Bengali: রাউটার (rauṭar)
• Bulgarian: маршрутиза́тор m (maršrutizátor), ру́тер m (rúter)
• Burmese: ရောက်တာ (raukta)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 路由器 (lou⁶ jau⁴ hei³), 路徑器／路径器 (lou⁶ ging³ hei³)

  Mandarin: 路由器 (zh) (lùyóuqì), 路徑器／路径器 (lùjìngqì)

• Czech: směrovač m, router (cs) m
• Danish: router c
• Dhivehi: ރައުޓަރު sg (rauṭaru), ރައުޓަރުތައް pl (rauṭarutak̊)
• Dutch: router (nl) m
• Estonian: ruuter, marsruuter
• Finnish: reititin (fi)
• French: routeur (fr) m
• Georgian: როუტერი (rouṭeri), მარშრუტიზატორი (maršruṭizaṭori)
• German: Router (de) m
• Greek: δρομολογητής (el) m (dromologitís)
• Hebrew: נַתָּב (he) m (nátav)
• Hindi: राउटर (rāuṭar)
• Hungarian: útválasztó (hu), router (hu)
• Icelandic: beinir m
• Indonesian: penghala
• Italian: router (it) m, instradatore (it) m, indirizzatore m, smistatore m
• Japanese: ルータ (rūta), ルーター (rūtā)
• Kazakh: маршруттауыш (marşruttauyş)
• Khmer: រ៉ោតទ័រ (raottɔə)
• Korean: 라우터 (rauteo)
• Kyrgyz: роутер (router), раутер (rauter), рутер (ruter), маршрутизатор (marşrutizator)
• Lao: ເຣົາເຕີຣ໌ (rao tœ̄n)
• Latvian: maršrutētājs m
• Lithuanian: maršrutizatorius m
• Macedonian: рутер m (ruter)
• Malay: penghala (ms)
• Marathi: राउटर m (rāuṭar)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: рүүтэр (rüüter), раутер (rauter), рутер (ruter), роутер (router), чиглүүлэгч (mn) (čiglüülegč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ruter (no) m

• Persian: رهیاب (fa), روتر (rowter), مسیریاب
• Polish: router (pl) m, ruter (pl) m, trasownik m
• Portuguese: roteador (pt) m
• Romanian: ruter n
• Russian: маршрутиза́тор (ru) m (maršrutizátor), ра́утер m (ráutɛr), ру́тер (ru) m (rútɛr), ро́утер (ru) m (róutɛr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рутер m

  Roman: ruter m

• Sinhalese: රවුටරය (rawuṭaraya)
• Slovak: smerovač m, router m
• Slovene: usmerjevalnik m
• Spanish: router (es) m, enrutador m, ruteador m, direccionador m
• Swedish: router (sv) c
• Tagalog: router
• Tajik: маршрутизатор (maršrutizator)
• Thai: เราเตอร์ (rao-dtə̂ə)
• Turkish: yönlendirici (tr)
• Turkmen: marşrutizator
• Ukrainian: маршрутиза́тор (uk) m (maršrutyzátor), ра́утер m (ráuter), ру́тер m (rúter)
• Urdu: راؤٹر (rāuṭar)
• Uzbek: marshrutizator
• Vietnamese: router (vi), cầu dẫn, bộ định tuyến

algorithm

• Finnish: reititin (fi)

See also

• firewall
• routing (EDA) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Router in carpentry.

From rout ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊtə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊtɚ/
• Rhymes: -aʊtə(ɹ)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• plunge router

Translations

power tool

• Dutch: frees (nl) m or f, bovenfrees m or f
• Finnish: yläjyrsin
• French: défonceuse (fr)
• German: Oberfräse (de) f
• Portuguese: tupia (pt) f
• Russian: фре́зер (ru) m (frézer)
• Spanish: fresadora f
• Swedish: överfräs (sv) c

See also

• wood router on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• retour, roture, tourer

Chinese

Etymology

From English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹaːu̯⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

Noun

router

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet) router

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru(ː)tər/, /ˈrɑu̯tər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: rou‧ter
• Rhymes: -utər, -ɑu̯tər

Noun

router m (plural routers, diminutive routertje n)

1. (Internet) router (networking device)

French

Etymology

From route ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

router

1. to route

Conjugation

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).

Derived terms

• routage
• routeur

Further reading

• “router”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• retour, trouer

Polish

Alternative forms

• ruter

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈru.tɛr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -utɛr
• Syllabification: rou‧ter

Noun

router m inan

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

   Synonym: trasownik

Declension

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

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

Spanish

Alternative forms

• rúter

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruteɾ/ [ˈru.t̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -uteɾ

Noun

router m (plural routers or router)

1. router

   Synonyms: enrutador, direccionador, encaminador

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “router”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Noun

router c

1. (telecommunications) a router

Declension

Declension of router

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	router	routers
	definite	routern	routerns
plural	indefinite	routrar	routrars
	definite	routrarna	routrarnas

Noun

router

1. definite singular of route

References

• router in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• router in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)