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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

path / pa[unvoicedth]/ • n. (pl. paths / pa[voicedth]z; pa[unvoicedth]s/ ) a way or track laid down for walking or made by continual treading. ∎ such a way or track designed for a particular purpose: a two-mile nature path. ∎ the course or direction in which a person or thing is moving: the missile traced a fiery path in the sky| fig. a chosen career path. ∎ a course of action or conduct: an ordered, gradual path toward economic liberalization. ∎ Comput. a definition of the order in which an operating system or program searches for a file or executable program. ∎ a schedule available for allocation to an individual railroad train over a given route. PHRASES: the path of least resistancesee resistance.DERIVATIVES: path·less adj.

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path

A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | | Copyright

path
1. A route between two vertices of a graph, passing along edges and, in the case of a directed graph, with attention paid to the direction along the edges. More formally there is a path between vertices V₀ and V_k if each pair (V_i, V_i₊₁), i = 0,1…,k–1

is an edge of the graph and, in the case of a directed graph, is suitably directed.

In typical applications, the existence of paths between vertices indicates physical connections between them or perhaps logical connections or dependencies. See also cycle.

2. A sequence of instructions that may be performed in the execution of a program. A path through a program is equivalent to a traversal of the control-flow diagram for that program from the start node or vertex to the end node of the graph.

3. See access path.

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Pāṭh

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | | Copyright

Pāṭh (Hindī, Pañjābī, ‘reading’). For Sikhs, a reading of the entire Ādi Granth. This may be an uninterrupted reading (akhaṇḍ pāṭh) or may take about ten days or longer (sahaj pāṭh, sadhāran pāṭh).

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path

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

path OE. pæðɛ LG., Du. pad, OHG. phad (G. pfad):- WGmc. *paþa.
Hence pathway XVI. Cf. PAD1.

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path

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

path •Barth, bath, garth, hearth, lath, path •sand bath • hip bath • eyebath •bloodbath, mudbath •Hogarth • warpath • towpath •footpath

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