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cor⋅ri⋅dor

  [kawr-i-der, -dawr, kor-]
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–noun
1. a gallery or passage connecting parts of a building; hallway.
2. a passage into which several rooms or apartments open.
3. a passageway in a passenger ship or railroad car permitting access to separate cabins or compartments.
4. a narrow tract of land forming a passageway, as one connecting two major cities or one belonging to an inland country and affording an outlet to the sea: the Polish Corridor.
5. a usually densely populated region characterized by one or more well-traveled routes used by railroad, airline, or other carriers: The Northeast corridor extends from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
6. Aeronautics. a restricted path along which an aircraft must travel to avoid hostile action, other air traffic, etc.
7. Aerospace. a carefully calculated path through the atmosphere along which a space vehicle must travel after launch or during reentry in order to attain a desired orbit, to avoid severe acceleration and deceleration, or to minimize aerodynamic heating.
Origin:
1585–95; < MF < Upper It corridore (Tuscan corridoio), equiv. to corr(ere) to run (< L currere) + -idore < L -i-tōrium; see -i-, -tory 2

Related forms:
cor⋅ri⋅dored, adjective
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cor·ri·dor   (kôr'ĭ-dər, -dôr', kŏr'-)   
n.  
  1. A narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it.
    1. A tract of land forming a passageway, such as one that allows an inland country access to the sea through another country.
    2. A restricted tract of land for the passage of trains.
    3. Restricted airspace for the passage of aircraft.
    4. The restricted path followed by a spacecraft on a particular mission.
  3. A thickly populated strip of land connecting two or more urban areas: the Boston-Washington corridor.

[French, from Italian corridore, from correre, to run, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]
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Corridor

Cor"ri*dor\ (k?r"r?-d?r or -d?r), n. [F., fr. Itt. corridpore, or Sp. corredor; prop., a runner, hence, a running or long line, a gallery, fr. L. currere to run. See Course.]

1. (Arch.) A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [R.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : corridor
Spanish: pasillo, corredor,
German: der Gang,
Japanese: 廊下
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corridor 
1591, from It. corridore "a gallery," lit. "a runner," from correre "to run," from L. currere (see current). Originally of fortifications, meaning "long hallway" is first recorded 1814.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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