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node
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What does node mean?
noun
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- 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 ☋.
- A leaf node.
More meanings (14)
noun
- A computer or other device attached to a network.
- The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- 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 point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- 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, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- 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).
- A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
proper noun
- Acronym of New Oxford Dictionary of English.
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There is first, at a suitable distance from the bottom or the node of the reed, a transversal partition, perpendicular to the axis of the tube.
In the case of buds, if you can only save a single node you may get a bud started there and make a tree of that.
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In February, by which time the insect is in its perfect state, I take a certain number of cocoons, without damaging them, from their cells and insert them each in a separate stump of reed, closed at one end by the natural wall of the node and open at the other.
They may be on distinct “spurs” or short branches, in all the above fruits; or, as in the peach, they may be chiefly lateral on the new shoots (in the peach, the fruit-buds are usually two at a node and with a leaf-bud between them), or, as sometimes in apples and pears, they may be at the ends of last year’s growths.