ALL meanings of path
path
P p - noun path trail 1
- noun path way 1
- noun path course, line 1
- noun path orbit 1
- noun plural path a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals. 1
- noun plural path a narrow walk or way: a path through a garden; a bicycle path. 1
- noun plural path a route, course, or track along which something moves: the path of a hurricane. 1
- noun plural path a course of action, conduct, or procedure: the path of righteousness. 1
- noun plural path Mathematics. a continuous curve that connects two or more points. 1
- noun plural path Computers. the sequence of steps that a computer follows in carrying out a routine, as in storing and retrieving a file at a specific location. 1
- idioms path cross one's path, to encounter or meet unexpectedly: Tragedy crossed our path again. 1
- noun Definition of path in Technology 1. (file system) pathname. 2. (networking) A bang path or explicitly routed Internet address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. 3. (operating system) The list of directories the kernel (under Unix) or the command interpreter (under MS-DOS) searches for executables. It is stored as part of the environment in both operating systems. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix; the C preprocessor, for example, uses such a search path to locate "#include" files. 1
- countable noun path A path is a long strip of ground which people walk along to get from one place to another. 0
- countable noun path Your path is the space ahead of you as you move along. 0
- countable noun path The path of something is the line which it moves along in a particular direction. 0
- countable noun path A path that you take is a particular course of action or way of achieving something. 0
- countable noun path You can say that something is in your path or blocking your path to mean that it is preventing you from doing or achieving what you want. 0
- noun path a road or way, esp a narrow trodden track 0
- noun path a surfaced walk, as through a garden 0
- noun path the course or direction in which something moves 0
- noun path a course of conduct 0
- noun path the directions for reaching a particular file or directory, as traced hierarchically through each of the parent directories usually from the root; the file or directory and all parent directories are separated from one another in the path by slashes 0
- abbreviation PATH pathological 0
- abbreviation PATH pathology 0
- noun path a track or way worn by footsteps; trail 0
- noun path a walk or way for the use of people on foot, as in a park or garden 0
- noun path a line of movement; course taken 0
- noun path a course or manner of conduct, thought, or procedure 0