node

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See also: NODE

English

This circuit contains three nodes (sense 14).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

node (plural nodes)

  1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
  2. (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 South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
  3. (botany) A leaf node.
  4. (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
  5. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
    Synonym: knot
  6. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
  7. (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
  9. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
  10. (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.
  11. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
  12. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
  13. (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.
  15. (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
  16. (electronics) 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).

Synonyms

  • (computer networking): host
  • (graph theory): vertex

Derived terms

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Descendants

  • → Irish: nód

Translations

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Pronunciation

Noun

node f (plural nodes)

  1. (geometry, astronomy, physics, networking) node
  2. (medicine) node, nodule

Danish

Noun

node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)

  1. (music) note

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

node

  1. (archaic) dative singular of nood

Japanese

Romanization

node

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ので

Latin

Noun

nōde

  1. vocative singular of nōdus

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knotte.

Pronunciation

Noun

node (plural nodez)

  1. (medicine, Late Middle English) lump, swelling
  2. (rare, Late Middle English) knot, tie

Descendants

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin nodus (“knot”). Akin to English node.

Pronunciation

Noun

node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)

  1. a node

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hnoða.

Alternative forms

Noun

node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)

  1. Synonym of nyste

Etymology 3

Verb

node (present tense noder, past tense nodde, past participle nodt/nodd, passive infinitive nodast, present participle nodande, imperative nod)

  1. Synonym of neia

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