Category: R

The working out of the best route for cost effective distribution that will minimise any distances travelled with minimal stopovers along the way.

A software or hardware device capable of directing traffic of data between networks. See also hub, gateway, bridge.

A term which includes oxen, cows, steers, heifers, and such like horned auimals. Cowell.

Small boroughs in England, which prior to the reform act, 1S32, returned one or more members to parliament.

A clause sometimes inserted in policies of marine insurance, to the effect that “if, on a regular survey, the ship shall be declared unseaworthy by reason of being rotten or unsound,” the insurers shall be discharged. 1 Phil. Ins.

The roll of Winton. An exact survey of all England, made by Alfred, not unlike that of Domesday ; and it was so called because it was kept at Winchester, among other records of the kingdom; but this roll time has destroyed. Ingulph. Hist. 516.

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenure without the privilege of nobility; the tenure of a free commoner.

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. A free tenant of land on services exigible either in money or in kind. Steph. Lect. 229. A free commoner; one who held of a superior, but could have no inferior below him.

An early version of an art work, ad layout, script or story board used to show clients themes to be used awaiting their approval.

An approximate measure that extimates a quantity’s soundness.