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Node

//nəʊd// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of New Oxford Dictionary of English. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
  2. 2
    (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network wordnet
  3. 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. 4
    any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part wordnet
  5. 5
    A leaf node.
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  1. 6
    the source of lymph and lymphocytes wordnet
  2. 7
    A computer or other device attached to a network.
  3. 8
    (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane wordnet
  4. 9
    The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
  5. 10
    (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system wordnet
  6. 11
    The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
  7. 12
    (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge wordnet
  8. 13
    A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
  9. 14
    any thickened enlargement wordnet
  10. 15
    A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
  11. 16
    a connecting point at which several lines come together wordnet
  12. 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.
  13. 18
    A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
  14. 19
    The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work. rare
  15. 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.
  16. 21
    The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
  17. 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).
  18. 23
    A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
  19. 24
    A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.

Etymology

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

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