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redirect

verb

Etymology

From re- + direct.

  1. borrowed from dīrēctus
  2. prefixed as redirect — “re- + direct”

Definitions

  1. To give new direction to, change the direction of.

    • redirect output to /dev/null

  2. To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere.

  3. To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.

      • You will be redirected shortly.

    2. A redirection.

    3. An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the…

      An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination, re-examination.

    4. The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a…

      The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.

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Derived

auto-redirect, hard redirect, soft redirect, redirectable, redirectedness, redirection, redirector, unredirected, autoredirect

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at redirect. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at redirect. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at redirect

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA