English Explanatory Dictionary

node

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.
  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.
  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.
name
  1. Acronym of New Oxford Dictionary of English.

Pronunciation

/nəʊd/ /noʊd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-node.wav

Word forms

node nodes

Etymology

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

Synonyms

host vertex knot

Related words

knot nodal noded nodule neurode NOAD ODE

Derived words

acnode anti-node antinode ascending node AV node binode child node Cloquet's node crunode descending node eigennode end-node exit node hardware node Heberden's node heminode hypernode internode intranode leaf node lymphatic node lymph node lymphnode lymphoneogenesis lymphonode lymphonodectomy macronode metanode multinode nodeless nodelike nodelist node of Ranvier node of Rouvière nodeset nodesize node-voltage analysis nodewise nodical nodiform nodopathy oscnode Osler node paranode Ranvier's node Rosenmüller's node SA node S-A node sinoatrial node sinus node stem node subnode supernode tacnode tidal node Virchow's node
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