Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Financial, Acronyms, Idioms, Wikipedia.
forward
a. an attacking player in any of various sports, such as soccer, hockey, or basketball
b. (in American football) a lineman
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
forward
[′fȯr·wərd](navigation)
In a direction nearer dead ahead than dead astern.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
forward
(messaging)(verb) To send (a copy of) an electronic mail message that you have received on to one or more other addressees. Most e-mail systems can be configured to do this automatically to all or certain messages, e.g. Unix sendmail looks for a ".forward" file in the recipient's home directory.
A mailing list server (or "mail exploder") is designed to forward messages automatically to lists of people.
Unix manual page: aliases(5).
This article is provided by FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (foldoc.org)