/root/ The sequence of hosts, routers, bridges, gateways, and other devices that network traffic takes, or could take, from its source to its destination. As a verb, to determine the link down which to send a packet, that will minimise its total journey time according to some routeing algorithm. You can find the route from your computer to another using the programtraceroute on Unix or tracert on {Microsoft Windows}. (2001-05-26)