When birds and some small animals hop, they move along by jumping on both feet. A small brown fawn hopped across the trail in front of them. Hop is also a noun. The rabbit got up, took four hops and turned round
On the Internet, most data packets go through several routers to get to their final destination The more hops, the longer it takes to get where you're going Think of it as flying from Los Angeles to New York, with a stop in Chicago--that stops in Chicago would be a "hop " Back to Top
{i} small jump, short leap; (Internet) one of many nodes in a computer network through which a message in transferred on its way from one point to another; twining vine related to the Mulberry with cone-shaped flowers that are used when dried in the beer-brewing process to give the beer a bitter taste
In data communications, one segment of the path between routers on a geographically dispersed network A hop is comparable to one "leg" of a journey that includes intervening stops between the starting point and the destination The distance between each of those stops (routers) is a communications hop
In network routing, hops are a measure of the distance from source to destination In some contexts, the number of hops is the number of routers through which a packet must travel to reach its destination