Depreference

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To cause something to stop being preferred by a search engine algorithm.

    "We predict from this experiment that depreferencing short-term routes would have little negative impact in practice, as most affected routes are misconfigured, non-optimal routes discovered during convergence, or attacks."

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"We predict from this experiment that depreferencing short-term routes would have little negative impact in practice, as most affected routes are misconfigured, non-optimal routes discovered during convergence, or attacks."

Etymology

From de- + preference.

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