What does "node" mean?
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
Node
/nəʊd/ name, noun
name, noun ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- Grammar: node is listed as name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: host, lymph gland, vertex, amplitude.
- Useful contrasts: antinode, edge, internode.
- Usage evidence: Our team captured the forward node.
How to use "node"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- 2 (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network wordnet
- 3 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 ☋.
- 4 any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part wordnet
- 5 A leaf node.
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- 6 the source of lymph and lymphocytes wordnet
- 7 A computer or other device attached to a network.
- 8 (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane wordnet
- 9 The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- 10 (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system wordnet
- 11 The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- 12 (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge wordnet
- 13 A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- 14 any thickened enlargement wordnet
- 15 A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- 16 a connecting point at which several lines come together wordnet
- 17 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.
- 18 A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- 19 The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work. rare
- 20 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.
- 21 The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- 22 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).
- 23 A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- 24 A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
Proper Noun
- 1 Acronym of New Oxford Dictionary of English. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Example
"Our team captured the forward node."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "node"?
Common synonyms include: host, lymph gland, vertex, amplitude, antinode, block.
How do you use "node" in a sentence?
Our team captured the forward node.
How do you pronounce "node"?
Pronounced /nəʊd/.
Etymology
From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.