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path

Pronunciation: /pɑːθ/

The English word “path” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  2. A course taken.
  3. A metaphorical course or route; progress.
  4. A method or direction of proceeding.
  5. A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  6. A human-readable specification for a location within a hierarchical or tree-like structure, such as a file system or as part of a URL.
  7. A sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edges). A path does not visit the same vertex more than once (unless it is a closed path, where only the first and the last vertex are the same).
  8. A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.
  9. A slot available for allocation to a railway train over a given route in between other trains.
  10. Pathology.

verb

  1. To make a path in, or on (something), or for (someone).
  2. To navigate through a file system directory tree (to a desired file or folder).
  3. To pathfind.

Etymology

From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). The Proto-Germanic term is possibly borrowed from Iranian, from Proto-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs, from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from the root *pent- (“to pass”), but this is disputed. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Paad,…

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