Definition of "node"
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A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
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The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic.
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A stem node.
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A computer or other device attached to a network.
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A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
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The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
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The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve.
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A vertex of a graph.
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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.
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One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
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The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
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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.
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