Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
📶 A network device 🪚 A cutting tool 📦 A shipment planner 🧭 A navigation tool
router

router

3 7.0
A power tool with a spinning cutter that makes grooves and shapes in wood
  • noun
  • /ˈraʊtər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fresadora
  • Previously, they used CNC routers to create prototype fixtures for the car.
  • a CNC router
  • a power router

Because this year I picked up a cordless router, dude.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • The syringe robot shown here was planned, designed, and manufactured using CAD/CAM tools and a CNC router. Design documents and files were moved via networks and email for review and comment.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Because this year I picked up a cordless router, dude.

    Adam Savage’s Tested

  • Assume the router bit is thick.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Now at this point we're done with the router jig and so we'll remove it and set it aside.

  • I have a three-horse router that has lasted through 3+ years and 100+ projects.

    Blog text (8)

  • So I'm going to use these router bits to make sure that the slats can rest on each other and spread the load.

  • Shown here is a student using CNC software and a CNC router to machine the components for a robot project.

    Academic text (2012)

  • The company will use a five-axis computer numerically controlled router from Quintax Inc. of East Canton, Ohio.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Nothing like having a planer, routers, and two table saws—one with a dado blade.

    Blog text (11)

  • To make decorative edges on the shelf, I used a router with a special cutting bit.

Synonyms

router plane
vsrouter
  • Specialized
9.7

A tool for making narrow grooves with smooth flat bottoms in wood

is a powered rotating cutter used for grooves and decorative edges

Compounds

router plane
  • Specialized
9.7

A tool for making narrow grooves with smooth flat bottoms in wood

How Powerful

router
  • Specialized
3 7.0
router plane
  • Specialized
9.7

Surface Forms

router singular
routers plural

Morphology

router = route (transparent) = route + er

The tool is an instrument that performs the action 'to route' (to cut or hollow), so the meaning follows directly from 'route' + '-er'.

Etymology

The word router comes from the word route, which means 'road' or 'path'. A woodworking router cuts a path or groove in wood, removing material to shape edges and decorative designs.