hot-potato routing
A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available…A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available neighbour immediately as opposed to being buffered until the optimum path to the destination is usable.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A style of routing network traffic in which packets are forwarded to any available neighbour immediately as opposed to being buffered until the optimum path to the destination is usable.
Origin
From hot potato, a game in which an object is passed on as soon as it is received, + routiFrom hot potato, a game in which an object is passed on as soon as it is received, + routing.
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Synonyms
1 synonymsdeflection routing
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable