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Routing vs Navigation - What's the difference?

routing | navigation |

As nouns the difference between routing and navigation

is that routing is a method of finding paths from origins to destinations in a network such as the internet, along which information can be passed or routing can be a channel cut in a material such as wood with a router or gouge while navigation is navigation (theory and practice of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or spaceship).

As a verb routing

is or routing can be .

routing

English

(wikipedia routing)

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

* routeing (UK)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A method of finding paths from origins to destinations in a network such as the Internet, along which information can be passed.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A channel cut in a material such as wood with a router or gouge.

    • Anagrams

    * English heteronyms

    navigation

    English

    (wikipedia navigation)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a ship, aircraft or a spaceship
  • (uncountable) Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping
  • (countable) A canal