Directed along a different path or course than originally planned; changed the route of travel or communication.
Compound of 're-' (again) and 'route' from Old French 'rute', from Latin 'rupta' meaning 'broken way'. The modern usage emerged with transportation systems and later expanded to data networks.
Internet data packets are constantly being rerouted through different servers and networks, sometimes traveling thousands of extra miles to reach their destination - your email to a neighbor might actually bounce through servers on different continents.
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