Via Meaning
/ˈvaɪə/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA main road or highway, especially in ancient Rome. (Mainly used in set phrases, below.)
nounA small hole in a printed circuit board filled with metal which connects two or more layers.
Sentence Examples
Would you please send me details of your products via e-mail as an attachment?
I'd like to return to Tokyo via Honolulu.
CEFR Practice Quiz
We can travel to Paris ____ London to visit both major cities.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We traveled to the city center ____ the new highway, which is much faster than taking the old and narrow road today.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Under the assumptions of Proposition 5 the entropies h(τ) and H(k) are related via the following equation: […]"
— 2005, “Capacity Bounds For MIMO Poisson Channels With Intersymbol Interference, Appendix C”, in Enrico Forestieri, editor, Optical Communication Theory and Techniques, →ISBN, page 44:
"A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone."
— 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
"White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been in contact via intermediaries with Curtis Yarvin, Politico Magazine reported this week."
— 2017 February 10, Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2020:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
We can travel to Paris ____ London to visit both major cities.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We traveled to the city center ____ the new highway, which is much faster than taking the old and narrow road today.