| node | |
| 1. n. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling. | |
| 2. n. (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 Sout | |
| 3. n. (botany) A leaf node. | |
| 4. n. (computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network. | |
| 5. n. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot. | |
| 6. n. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode. | |
| 7. n. (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane. | |
| 8. n. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure. | |
| 9. n. (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. | |
| 10. n. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude. | |
| 11. n. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work. | |
| 12. n. (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. | |
| 13. n. (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts. | |
