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means The act of changing the course, direction, or destination of something — a person, a request, a web address — toward a different target than the original one.

from Built from the verb 'redirect,' itself 'direct' wearing the prefix 're-' ('again, back'). 'Direct' comes from Latin 'directus,' the past participle of 'dirigere,' 'to set straight, guide,' from 'dis-' (apart) plus 'regere' (to lead, rule) — the same 'regere' that gives us 'regent,' 'regime,' and 'rectitude.' So at its root, redirection is the act of leading something straight again, just toward a new mark. The '-tion' tail, from Latin '-tio,' simply turns the doing into a thing — the noun form bloomed especially in the computing age, where requests and URLs are forever being politely shunted elsewhere.