node
See also: NODE
English
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Etymology
From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nəʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /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).
Synonyms
Derived terms
- acnode
- antinode
- anti-node
- ascending node
- AV node
- Cloquet's node
- crunode
- descending node
- end-node
- exit node
- hardware node
- Heberden's node
- leaf-node
- lymphatic node
- lymph node
- node of Ranvier
- node of Rouvière
- node-voltage analysis
- Osler node
- Ranvier's node
- SA node
- S-A node
- sinoatrial node
- sinus node
- stem node
- tacnode
- tidal node
- Virchow's node
Related terms
Descendants
- → Irish: nód
Translations
knot, knob, protuberance or swelling
astronomy: where the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic
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joint of a plant stem
computer attached to a network
engineering: point at which the lines of a funicular meet
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geometry: point at which a curve crosses itself
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vertex of a graph of a network
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physics: point along a standing wave
knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work
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References
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
node f (plural nodes)
Danish
Noun
node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
node
Japanese
Romanization
node
Latin
Noun
nōde
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knotte.
Pronunciation
Noun
node (plural nodez)
Descendants
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
Noun
node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)
- a node
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
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.
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