Definition/Meaning of via

• English - Noun: via (plural vias or viae) A main road or highway , especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.) A small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layer s. An electrical connection which connects two or more layer s on a printed circuit board or an integrated circuit .
• English - Preposition: via By way of ; passing through. You can enter the building via the western gate. They drove from New York to Los Angeles via Omaha. By (means of) ; using . I'll send you the information via e-mail. 2005, “Capacity Bounds For MIMO Poisson Channels With Intersymbol Interference, Appendix C”, in Enrico Forestieri, editor, Optical Communication Theory and Techniques, →ISBN, page 44: Under the…
• English - Interjection: via (obsolete) Away! Be off!
• English - Anagrams: Iva , IVA vai , Vai
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. Borrowed from Latin via (“road”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Possible doublet of way . The sense in electronics is also explained as vertical interconnect access. Etymology 2. Borrowed from Latin viā (“by the way (of)”), ablative singular of via (“way, road”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Compare typologically Polish drogą , Russian путём (putjóm).