path

  1. Noun.  a trail for the use of, or worn by, pedestrians.
  2. Noun.  a course taken.
  3. Noun.  (context, paganism) A Pagan tradition, for example witchcraft, Wicca, druidism, Heathenry.
  4. Noun.  a metaphorical course.
  5. Noun.  a method or direction of proceeding.
  6. Noun.  (graph theory) a sequence of vertices from one vertex to another using the arcs (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).
  7. Noun.  (topology) a continuous map f from the unit interval I = [0,1] to a topological space X.

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