node

Plural: nodes

Noun

• A point of intersection or swelling.
• a connecting point at which several lines come together
• any thickened enlargement
• (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
• (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
• (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
• the source of lymph and lymphocytes
• any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
• (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
• A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
• 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 ☋.
• A leaf node.
• A computer or other device attached to a network.
• The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
• The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
• A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
• A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
• 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.
• A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
• The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
• 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.
• The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
• 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).
• A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
• A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.

Examples

• The ’E’ tile was crucial, acting as a NODE for two high-scoring words.

Synonyms

client, guest, knob, leaf node, lymph gland, lymph node, thickening, host, knot, vertex

Antonyms

antinode

Related Words

knot, neurode, nodal, noded, nodule