different between repeater vs router

English

Etymology

repeat +? -er

Noun

repeater (plural repeaters)

1. One who or that which repeats.
2. (education) A student repeating a course or class.
3. (medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
4. (marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
5. (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
6. In ufology and similar studies, a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.

   Note – this term is more commonly used by skeptics of the paranormal, and implies that the witness lacks credibility.

7. (firearms) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
8. A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
9. (electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
10. A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
11. (nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
12. (nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)

13. (mathematics) A repeating decimal.
14. (textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.

Derived terms

• banner repeater

Translations

Anagrams

• Pear Tree, pear tree, peartree, repartee, repartée, rerepeat

English

Etymology 1

route +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??u?t?(?)/
• Rhymes: -u?t?(?)
• (US) IPA^(key): /??u?t?(?)/, IPA^(key): /??a?t?/
• Rhymes: -u?t?(?), -a?t?(?)

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.
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.
3. (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.

4. (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.

Translations

See also

• firewall
• routing (EDA) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

rout +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??a?t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??a?t?/
• Rhymes: -a?t?(?)

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

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru(?)t?r/, /?r?u?t?r/
• Hyphenation: rou?ter
• Rhymes: -ut?r, -?u?t?r

Noun

router m (plural routers, diminutive routertje n)

1. (Internet) router (networking device)

French

Etymology

route +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.te/

Verb

router

1. to route

Conjugation

Derived terms

• routage
• routeur

Further reading

• “router” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• retour, trouer

Polish

Alternative forms

• ruter

Etymology

From English router.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ru.t?r/

Noun

router m inan

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

   Synonym: trasownik

Declension

Further reading

• router in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• router in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English router.

Noun

router m (plural routers or router)

1. router