(US) A number used by a banking institution to designate a certain geographic area in order to sort inquiries and transactions and direct them to the correct district. It is usually shown at the bottom left of a check.

plural of routing number

(computing) A technique for anonymous communication over a computer network, the messages being repeatedly encrypted and sent through nodes called onion routers, each of which performs only one stage of the decryption.

plural of routing slip

(networks) 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.

on the way / along the way

A former United States highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles / The Capricorn Highway in Queensland, Australia

A road or path designed to take one past a pleasant view or nice scenery. / (colloquial) The long way round; a deliberately slow path.

(chiefly Britain) A system of traffic management, marked by red lines along the edge of the road, where parking, loading or picking up passengers is restricted.

A tool for finding optimal routes from one place to another, usually for traveling by car.