meaning of traceroute code example

Example 1: traceroute command

Windows 		- $tracert ip or domain
Linux and MAC 	- $traceroute ip or domain

Example 2: what is traceroute

Traceroute is a network diagnostic tool used to track 
in real-time 
the pathway taken by a packet on an IP network from source to destination, 
reporting the IP addresses of all the routers it pinged in between. 
Traceroute also records the time taken for each hop the packet makes \
during its route to the destination.