getaway

n 1: the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his

car has a lot of pickup" [syn: {pickup}]

2: a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean

getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam"

[syn: {lam}]

gateway

1. A deprecated term for a device that enables

data to flow between different networks (forming an

{internet}).

Preferred terms are "{protocol converter}" (connects networks

that use different {protocols}), "{router}" (connects two

broadcast networks at layer 3 ({network layer}). Another

example is a {mail gateway}, which is a layer 7 ({application

layer}) gateway.

2. An {interface} between an information source

and a {World-Wide Web} {server}. {Common Gateway Interface}

is a {standard} for such interfaces. The information source

can be any system that can be accessed by a program running on

the web server. A typical example is a {relational

database}.

(2000-05-24)