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Definition of NODE

1. Noun. A connecting point at which several lines come together.

2. Noun. Any thickened enlargement.

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

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

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

6. Noun. The source of lymph and lymphocytes.

7. Noun. Any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part.

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

Definition of NODE

1. n. A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

Definition of NODE

1. Abbreviation. New Oxford Dictionary of English ¹

2. Noun. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling. ¹

3. Noun. (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 ?. ¹

4. Noun. (botany) A stem node. ¹

5. Noun. (context: computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network. ¹

6. Noun. (context: computing theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure. ¹

7. Noun. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot. ¹

8. Noun. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode. ¹

9. Noun. (graph theory) A vertex of a graph. ¹

10. Noun. (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. ¹

11. Noun. (music) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point. ¹

12. Noun. A swelling. ¹

13. Noun. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece. ¹

14. Noun. (context: 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of NODE

1. a swollen enlargement [n -S]

Medical Definition of NODE

1. A point in a plant stem at which one or more leaves are attached. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of NODE

nodding donkey nodding donkeys nodding groundsel nodding off nodding onion nodding spasm nodding thistle nodding wild onion noddingly noddings

noddle noddled noddles noddling noddy node node of Aschoff and Tawara node of Cloquet node of Ranvier node of Rouviere

node of ligamentum arteriosum noded nodeless nodelike nodes nodes of Ranvier nodi nodi lymphatici abdominis viscerales nodi lymphatici anorectales nodi lymphatici appendiculares

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