node

noun

(networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.

(astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.

(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

(botany) A leaf node.

(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.

(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.

(electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).

(syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.

(biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.

A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

(medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.

(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.

(geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.

(technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.

(computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

Acronym of New Oxford Dictionary of English.

(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.

Roots

nodusnod- · Latin · knot

Synonyms for node

clustern nodulen antinoden nodus

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