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Bypass (Bypa) Alternative roadway constructed to enable through traffic to avoid congested areas or other obstructions to movement. Chase (Ch) Roadway leading down to a valley. Circuit (Cct) Roadway enclosing an area. Close (Cl) Short, enclosed roadway. Concourse (Con) Roadway that runs around a central area (e.g. public open space or ...
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has established a set of uppercase abbreviations to help process mail with optical character recognition and other automated equipment. [15] There are also official USPS abbreviations for other parts of the address, such as street designators (street, avenue, road, etc.).
The term was originally used to refer to the Gravelly Hill Interchange on the M6 in Birmingham. [11] Map of types of special routes Special route A prefixed or suffixed numbered road in the United States that forms a loop or spur of a more dominant route of the same route number and system. Speed bump, speed hump, speed ramp, speed cushion, or ...
The following are systems of state highways maintained and numbered by each U.S. state, territory or district. The naming conventions listed below may be supplemented by guidelines of individual state highway task forces under the U.S. Roads WikiProject (please see WP:USRD/SUB for a list).
A route (or road) number, designation or abbreviation is an identifying numeric (or alphanumeric) designation assigned by a highway authority to a particular stretch of roadway to distinguish it from other routes and, in many cases, also to indicate its classification (e.g. motorway, primary route, regional road, etc.), general geographical location (in zonal numbering systems) and/or ...
In Ontario, examples include the Donald Cousens Parkway (formerly named the Markham Bypass from 2004 to 2006) and the Box Grove Bypass in the city of Markham; and in Toronto a section of Highway 401 was called the Toronto Bypass in the 1950s when the highway was built as a bypass of Highway 2, Ontario Highway 2A which was built to bypass Highway 2 between Toronto and Newcastle, and the ...
RFC 2663 uses the term network address and port translation (NAPT) for this type of NAT. [4] Other names include port address translation (PAT), IP masquerading, NAT overload, and many-to-one NAT. This is the most common type of NAT and has become synonymous with the term NAT in common usage.
Acronyms are abbreviations formed by the initial letter or letters of the words that make up a multi-word term. For the most part, the geographic names in this list were derived from three or more other names or words. Those derived from only two names are usually considered portmanteaus and can be found in the List of geographic portmanteaus ...