nodated

English

Etymology

From Latin nodatus, past participle of nodare (“to make knotty”), from nodus (“knot”). See node.

Adjective

nodated (comparative more nodated, superlative most nodated)

knotted
- 1930, Fragmenta faunistica - Volume 37, page 407:
  The more abundant in the material right valves were always more nodated than the left ones thus only left valves were taken into consideration .
(geometry) Crossing itself.
- 1830, The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, page 232:
  Form A to b or B to b, along the circular arc (see fig. 4), the paths of a series of points will give a gradation of symmetrical double nodated figures between the arc of a circle and the cuspidated tirangular figure. This is the first or finite series of symmetrical double nodated lines.

Derived terms

nodated hyperbola

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nodated”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

donated