pathfinding

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The plotting by a computer application of the best route between two points.

   “When a suitable site block is detected, the villager starts pathfinding to it, staking a provisional claim.”

2. (uncountable, usually)The finding of a path to a destination, such as by neuronal axons or developing cells.

   “It comes as a shock to realize that Albert Einstein, whose theories still seem so futuristic and Star Trekky, did his first pathfinding work almost a century ago.”