pathfinding noun2 •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. — 2024 •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. — 2002 formspathfindings