round-trips

Out and back

Round-trips is the plural of round-trip, a journey to a destination and back again: She makes three round-trips to the office each week.

In computing, round-trips refers to complete cycles of a request sent and response received: The API requires too many round-trips to load a single page.

As a verb, to round-trip is to make such journeys or cycles.

travel

excursion

Brief recreational trip

expedition · tour · outbound · return · circuit · loop · booking · fare · ticket · flight

computation

request

Formal act of seeking

query · fetch · overhead · call · handshake · transmission · packet · server · client · synchronous

Opposites
journey completeness

round-tripsone-way tickets

Fares for departure only

one-ways · single tickets · singles · emigrations · point-to-point

Family

roundtrip

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G