node

See also: NODE

English

This circuit contains three nodes (sense 14).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊd

Noun

node (plural nodes)

1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
2. (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 ☋.
3. (botany) A leaf node.
4. (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
5. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
6. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
7. (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
9. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
10. (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.
11. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
12. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
13. (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.
15. (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
16. (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

• (computer networking): host
• (graph theory): vertex

Derived terms

• acnode
• antinode
• crunode
• end-node
• exit node
• hardware node
• leaf-node
• tacnode

 

Related terms

• knot
• nodal
• noded
• nodule

 

Descendants

• → Irish: nód

Translations

knot, knob, protuberance or swelling

• Bulgarian: възел (bg) m (vǎzel), удебеление n (udebelenie)
• Catalan: nus (ca) m, nuc (ca) m
• Finnish: patti (fi), kyhmy (fi)
• Maori: tīpona
• Spanish: nudo (es) m

astronomy: where the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: solmu (fi)
• Greek: κόμβος (el) m (kómvos)
• Irish: nód m
• Japanese: ノード (ja) (nōdo)
• Khmer: ថ្នាំង (km) (thnang), ថ្នាំងដែល (thnang del)
• Polish: węzeł (pl) m
• Russian: то́чка пересече́ния орби́т f (tóčka peresečénija orbít)
• Spanish: nodo (es) m
• Ukrainian: то́чка перети́ну орбі́т f (tóčka peretýnu orbít)

joint of a plant stem

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 節點／节点 (zh) (jiédiǎn)

• Finnish: solmu (fi)
• Greek: κόμβος (el) m (kómvos)
• Indonesian: nodus (id)
• Irish: nód m
• Japanese: ノード (ja) (nōdo)
• Latvian: mezgls (lv) m
• Polish: węzeł (pl) m
• Russian: у́зел (ru) m (úzel)
• Tagalog: buko
• Ukrainian: ву́зол (uk) m (vúzol)

computer attached to a network

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: solmu (fi), noodi (fi)
• French: nœud (fr)
• Greek: κόμβος (el) (kómvos)
• Indonesian: simpul (id)
• Italian: nodo (it)
• Portuguese: nó (pt)
• Russian: узел (ru) (uzel)
• Spanish: nodo (es)
• Swedish: nod (sv) c

engineering: point at which the lines of a funicular meet

• Finnish: kohtaamispaikka (fi)

geometry: point at which a curve crosses itself

• Finnish: duaalipiste

vertex of a graph of a network

• Afrikaans: nodus
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 節點／节点 (zh) (jiédiǎn)

• Czech: uzel (cs) m
• Danish: knude (da) c, hjørne n
• Finnish: solmu (fi)
• French: nœud (fr) m
• German: Knoten (de) m, Ecke (de) f
• Greek: κόμβος (el) m (kómvos)
• Hebrew: קודקוד‎ (he) m (kodkód), צומת‎ (he) m (tzómet)
• Hungarian: csomópont (hu)
• Italian: nodo (it) m
• Japanese: 節点 (せってん, setten)
• Polish: węzeł (pl) m
• Portuguese: nó (pt) m, nodo (pt) m
• Romanian: nod (ro) n, punct de joncțiune n, punct nodal n
• Russian: верши́на (ru) f (veršína), у́зел (ru) m (úzel)
• Spanish: nodo (es) m
• Swedish: nod (sv) c, knutpunkt (sv) c
• Ukrainian: верши́на f (veršýna)

medicine: concretion or incrustation upon bones

• Finnish: patti (fi), kyhmy (fi)

physics: point along a standing wave

• Catalan: node (ca) m, nodus (ca) m
• Finnish: solmukohta (fi)
• Maori: pona
• Polish: węzeł (pl) m
• Spanish: nodo (es) m
• Thai: บัพ (bàp)

knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work

• Bulgarian: интрига (bg) f (intriga)
• Catalan: nus (ca) m
• Finnish: solmu (fi)

technical: hole in the gnomon of a sundial

• Finnish: reikä (fi)

linguistics: word of interest in a KWIC

• Finnish: noodi (fi), solmu (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} mezgls (lv) m
• Maori: ^{(please verify)} tīpona

See also

• neurode

References

• node on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Deno, Deon, Done, Endo, done, endo, endo-, oden, onde, oned

Danish

Noun

node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)

1. (music) note

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

node

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of nood

Japanese

Romanization

node

1. Rōmaji transcription of ので

Latin

Noun

nōde

1. vocative singular of nōdus

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːd(ə)/

Noun

node (plural nodez)

1. (medicine, Late Middle English) lump, swelling
2. (rare, Late Middle English) knot, tie

Descendants

• English: node
  • → Irish: nód

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

• IPA^(key): /²nuː.də/

Noun

node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)

1. a node

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hnoða.

Alternative forms

• noda

Noun

node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)

1. 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)

1. Synonym of neia

References

• “node” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.