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noun (physical)
- a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
- a course taken.
(abstract)
- a metaphorical course.
- a method or direction of proceeding.
- a sequence (in the graph theory) of vertex, vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (edge, 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).
Etymology: Old English píí, from West Germanic - paía-, of uncertain origin, but perhaps an early borrowing from an Iranian language (Avestan pÉntÉ (nominative), pÉÉ (genitive) way, Old Persian pÉthi-), in which case it would be derived from the same Indo-European root as English find). Cognate with Dutch padDutch, pad, German Pfad.
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