Hub vs. Router
Hubnoun
The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
Hubnoun
A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed or diverted.
Hubnoun
A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub
Hubnoun
(networking) A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
Hubnoun
(surveying) A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
Hubnoun
A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
Hubnoun
(obsolete) The hilt of a weapon.
Hubnoun
(US) A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
Hubnoun
(video games) An area in a video game from which most or all of the game's levels are accessed.
Hubnoun
A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
Hubnoun
A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
Hubnoun
A screw hob.
Hubnoun
A block for scotching a wheel.
Hubnoun
The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. See Illust. of Axle box.
Hubnoun
The hilt of a weapon.
Hubnoun
A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction; as, a hub in the road. [U.S.] See Hubby.
Hubnoun
A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are cast.
Hubnoun
A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
Hubnoun
A screw hob. See Hob, 3.
Hubnoun
A block for scotching a wheel.
Hubnoun
The central location within which activities tend to concentrate, or from which activities radiate outward; a focus of activity.
Hubnoun
A large airport used as a central transfer station for an airline, permitting economic air transportation between remote locations by directing travellers through the hub, often changing planes at the hub, and thus keeping the seat occupancy rate on the airplanes high. The hub together with the feeder lines from remote locations constitute the so-called hub and spoke system of commercial air passenger transportation. A commercial airline may have more than one such hub.
Hubnoun
The city of Boston, Massachusetts referred to locally by the nickname The Hub.
Hubnoun
the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
Hubnoun
a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve;
Routernoun
Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
Routernoun
(telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
Routernoun
(Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
Routernoun
In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
Routernoun
A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
Routernoun
A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
Routernoun
A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
Routerverb
to hollow out or cut using a router power tool.
Routernoun
A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
Routernoun
A machine with a rapidly revolving vertical spindle and cutter for scooping out the surface of wood or metal, as between and around the engraved parts of an electrotype.
Routernoun
a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery
Routernoun
(computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks
Routernoun
a power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves
Routernoun
a power tool with a shaped cutter, used in carpentry for making grooves for joints, decorative mouldings, etc.
Routernoun
a device which forwards data packets to the appropriate parts of a computer network.
