node
See also: NODE
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nəʊd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /noʊd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊd
Noun edit
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 edit
Derived terms edit
- 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 edit
Descendants edit
- → Irish: nód
Translations edit
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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See also edit
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Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
node f (plural nodes)
Danish edit
Noun edit
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Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
node
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Romanization edit
node
Latin edit
Noun edit
nōde
Middle English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knotte.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
node (plural nodez)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “nōde, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin nodus (“knot”). Akin to English node.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)
- a node
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)
- Synonym of nyste
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
node (present tense noder, past tense nodde, past participle nodt/nodd, passive infinitive nodast, present participle nodande, imperative nod)
- Synonym of neia
References edit
- “node” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.