# node
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /nəʊd/
* (General American) IPA: /noʊd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊd

### Noun

node (plural nodes)
* A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
* (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 ☋.
* (botany) A leaf node.
* (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
* (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
    Synonym: knot
* (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.
* (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
* (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.
* (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
* (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
* (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, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
* (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
* (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.

#### Synonyms

* (computer networking): host
* (graph theory): vertex

#### Derived terms

* acnode
* anti-node
* antinode
* ascending node
* AV node
* binode
* child node
* Cloquet's node
* crunode
* descending node
* eigennode
* end-node
* exit node
* hardware node
* Heberden's node
* heminode
* hypernode
* internode
* intranode
* leaf node
* lymphatic node
* lymph node
* lymphnode
* lymphoneogenesis
* lymphonode
* lymphonodectomy
* macronode
* metanode
* multinode
* nodeless
* nodelike
* nodelist
* node of Ranvier
* node of Rouvière
* nodeset
* nodesize
* node-voltage analysis
* nodewise
* nodical
* nodiform
* nodopathy
* oscnode
* Osler node
* paranode
* Ranvier's node
* Rosenmüller's node
* SA node
* S-A node
* sinoatrial node
* sinus node
* stem node
* subnode
* supernode
* tacnode
* tidal node
* Virchow's node

#### Related terms

* knot
* nodal
* noded
* nodule

#### Descendants

* → Irish: nód

#### Translations

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### See also

* neurode

### References

* node on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Deno, Deon, Done, Endo, done, endo, endo-, oden, onde, oned

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔ.ðə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈnɔ.ðe]

### Noun

node f (plural nodes)
* (geometry, astronomy, physics, networking) node
* (medicine) node, nodule

## Danish
### Noun

node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)
* (music) note

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

node
* (archaic) dative singular of nood

## Japanese
### Romanization

node
* Rōmaji transcription of ので

## Latin
### Noun

nōde
* vocative singular of nōdus

## Middle English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knotte.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɔːd(ə)/

### Noun

node (plural nodez)
* (medicine, Late Middle English) lump, swelling
* (rare, Late Middle English) knot, tie

#### Descendants

* English: node
** → Irish: nód

#### References

* “nōde, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

From Latin nodus (“knot”). Akin to English node.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²nuː.də/

#### Noun

node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)
* a node

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse hnoða.

#### Alternative forms

* noda

#### Noun

node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)
* Synonym of nyste

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

node (present tense noder, past tense nodde, past participle nodt/nodd, passive infinitive nodast, present participle nodande, imperative nod)
* Synonym of neia

### References

* “node” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.