- a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- a narrow walk or way: a path through a garden; a bicycle path.
- a route, course, or track along which something moves: the path of a hurricane.
- a course of action, conduct, or procedure: the path of righteousness.
- a continuous curve that connects two or more points.
- the sequence of steps that a computer follows in carrying out a routine, as in storing and retrieving a file at a specific location.
- to encounter or meet unexpectedly: Tragedy crossed our path again.
- variant of patho- before a vowel: pathosis.
- a combining form occurring in personal nouns corresponding to abstract nouns ending in -pathy, with the general sense “one practicing such a treatment” (osteopath) or “one having such an ailment” (psychopath).
- pathological.
- pathology.
- a road or way, esp a narrow trodden track
- a surfaced walk, as through a garden
- the course or direction in which something moves
- a course of conduct
- the directions for reaching a particular file or directory, as traced hierarchically through each of the parent directories usually from the root; the file or directoryand all parent directories are separated from one another in the path by slashes
- denoting a person suffering from a specified disease or disorder
- denoting a practitioner of a particular method of treatment
- pathological
- pathology
