node — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

2. 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. A leaf node.

4. A computer or other device attached to a network.

5. The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.

   Synonyms

   knot

6. The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.

7. A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.

8. A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

9. 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.

10. A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.

11. The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.

    Usage

    • Rare

12. 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.

13. The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

14. 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).

15. A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.

16. A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.

Noun

1. a connecting point at which several lines come together

   Broader terms

   connectionconnexionlink

2. any thickened enlargement

   Synonyms

   knobthickening

   Broader terms

   convex shapeconvexity

3. (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

   Synonyms

   leaf node

   Broader terms

   plant processenation

4. (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system

   Antonyms

   antinode

   Broader terms

   point

5. (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane

   Broader terms

   celestial point

6. the source of lymph and lymphocytes

   Synonyms

   lymph nodelymph gland

   Broader terms

   lymphatic tissuelymphoid tissue

7. any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part

   Broader terms

   solid body substance

8. (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

   Synonyms

   clientguest

   Broader terms

   computercomputing machinecomputing devicedata processorelectronic computerinformation processing system