node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊd/
ipa: /noʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: nodes
Etymology: From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.
Senses: glosses: A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 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 ☋.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A leaf node.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer or other device attached to a network.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: knot
glosses: The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: 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.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
glosses: The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: 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.
topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: 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).
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
Synonyms: topics: networking
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
computer
word: host
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: 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
neurode