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Dictionary: round·trip or round-trip also round trip (round'trĭp') pronunciation
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A trip from one place to another and back, usually over the same route.


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Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: round trip
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From the source to a destination and back to the source again. See also round tripping.

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Idioms: round trip
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A journey to a given place and back again, usually over the same route; also, a ticket for such a trip. For example, The fare for a round trip is generally lower than for two one-way journeys. [Mid-1800s]

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a trip to some place and back again

Wikipedia: Round-trip delay time
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In telecommunications, the term round-trip delay time or round-trip time (RTT) has the following meanings:

  1. The elapsed time for transit of a signal over a closed circuit, or time elapsed for a message


Another definition for round-trip delay time is the time required for a signal pulse or packet to travel from a specific source to a specific destination and back again.

In the context of computer networks, the source is the host transmitting the packet and the destination is the remote computer that receives the packet and retransmits it back to the source.

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