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path

About 48.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  2. noun A course taken.
    the path of a meteor, of a caravan, or of a storm
  3. noun A metaphorical course or route; progress.
  4. noun A method or direction of proceeding.
  5. noun A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  6. noun 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.
    Use the network path \\Marketing\Files to find the documents you need.
  7. noun 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. noun A continuous map f from the unit interval I=[0,1] to a topological space X.

Similar words

way route track way of life course pathway footway footpath trailhead sidewalk

Often followed by

of to is and that for in from through

Word family

pathol paths

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