path

Betekenis

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.

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).

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/pɑːθ/

Etimologie

From Middle English path, peth, from Old English pæþ (“path, track”), from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”) (compare West Frisian paad, Dutch pad, German Pfad), Ancient Greek πατέω (patéō) / πάτος (pátos), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬥𐬙𐬀 (panta, “way”), 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀 (paθa, genitive), Old Persian [script needed] (pathi-)), from Proto-Iranian *pántaHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pántaHs (compare Sanskrit पन्था (panthā), पथ (patha)), from Proto-Indo-European *póntoh₁s, from *pent- (“path”) (compare English find). Doublet of panth.

Sinne

The set of all such tangency points is called the firm's " expansion path ".