Difference between Gateway and Routers

How network Gateway is dissimilar from Routers?

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Gateway: It is a device joined to multiple physical TCP/IP networks and is capable of routing or delivering IP packets among them.

Router: It is a layer 3 device which joins 2 different networks and routes packets of data from one network to the other. This breaks up Broadcast domain and also Collision Domain.   

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