A path is a route for physical travel – see

Trail A trail, also known as a path or track, is an unpaved lane or small road usually passing through a natural area. In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a path or footpath is the preferred term for a pedestrian or hiking trail. ...

. Path or PATH may also refer to:

Physical paths of different types

* Bicycle path * Bridle path, used by people on horseback *

Course (navigation) In navigation, the course of a watercraft or aircraft is the cardinal direction in which the craft is to be Steering, steered. The course is to be distinguished from the ''Heading (navigation), heading'', which is the direction where the watercra ...

, the intended path of a vehicle * Desire path, created by human or animal foot traffic *

Footpath A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, bicycles and horses. They can be found in a wide ...

, intended for use only by pedestrians * Shared-use path, intended for multiple modes such as walking, bicycling, in-line skating or others *

Sidewalk A sidewalk (North American English), pavement (British English), footpath in Australia, India, New Zealand and Ireland, or footway, is a path along the side of a street, highway, terminals. Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone ...

, a paved path along the side of a road * Hoggin, a buff-coloured gravel & clay pathway often seen in gardens of Stately Homes, Parks etc. *

, an unpaved lane or road

Mathematics, physics, and computing

Path (computing) A path is a string of characters used to uniquely identify a location in a directory structure. It is composed by following the directory tree hierarchy in which components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory. The del ...

, in file systems, the human-readable address of a resource ** PATH (variable), in computing, a way to specify a list of directories containing executable programs * Path (graph theory), a sequence of edges of a graph that form a trail ** st-connectivity problem, sometimes known as the "path problem" *

Path (topology) In mathematics, a path in a topological space X is a continuous function from the closed unit interval , 1/math> into X. Paths play an important role in the fields of topology and mathematical analysis. For example, a topological space for ...

, a continuous function *

Path (geometry) In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight. Intuitively, a curve may be thought of as the trace left by a moving point. This is the definition that ...

, a curve * Path, a name for the vectors in

vector graphics Vector graphics is a form of computer graphics in which visual images are created directly from geometric shapes defined on a Cartesian plane, such as points, lines, curves and polygons. The associated mechanisms may include vector display ...

Clipping path A clipping path (or "deep etch") is a closed vector path, or shape, used to cut out a 2D image in image editing software. Anything inside the path will be included after the clipping path is applied; anything outside the path will be omitted ...

, in digital image processing * Path (physics), a trajectory

Organizations

* PATH (global health organization), an international nonprofit organization in Seattle *

Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) is a collaboration between the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), UC Berkeley, other public and private academic institutions, and private industry. PATH's mission: applyi ...

, a research organization operated by the University of California * PATH Foundation, a trail-building organization in Georgia, USA *

People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets The People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets (PATH) was a minor political party in Tower Hamlets, London, England composed of councillors who had formerly been members of Tower Hamlets First and then the Tower Hamlets Independent Group. The group wa ...

, a minor political party in Tower Hamlets, London * Positive Alternatives to Homosexuality, a coalition of anti-gay organizations * Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship, a non-profit organization that promotes the benefits equine-assisted therapies * Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness, American formula grant program

Other uses

* Path (social network), a photo sharing and messaging service *

PATH (rail system) Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system in the Gateway Region, northeastern New Jersey cities of Newark, New Jersey, Newark, Harrison, New Jersey, Harrison, Jersey City, New Jersey, Jersey City, and Hoboken, New Jersey, H ...

, Port Authority Trans-Hudson, serving New York and New Jersey * Path (Toronto), a network of underground pedestrian tunnels in Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Golden Path (''Dune''), a metaphysical theme from Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' novels * " Path Vol. 1 & 2", a 2000 single by Apocalyptica * Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline, a proposed electrical line * Train path, infrastructure capacity needed to run a train between two places over a given time-period * ''Path'' (album), by American shoegaze musician Kraus

Physical paths of different types

Mathematics, physics, and computing

Organizations

Other uses

See also