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Noun:

  • 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 hole in the gnomon of a dial, 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.
  • A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
  • 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 S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are ? and ?.
  • A swelling.
  • computer networking A computer or other device attached to a network.
  • computing theory A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
  • geometry The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
  • graphtheory A vertex of a graph.
  • One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
  • The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.
  • The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
  • The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.

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