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node

  node   / noʊd /   Pronunciation key   Audiobase: en fr cs chi

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WordNet Lexical Database v3.0
noun
  1. (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
    node  client  guest 
  2. any thickened enlargement
    node  knob  thickening 
  3. (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
    node  leaf node 
  4. the source of lymph and lymphocytes
    lymph node  lymph gland  node 
  5. any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
    node 
  6. (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
    node 
  7. (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
    node 
  8. a connecting point at which several lines come together
    node 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun
  1. 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.
  2. A hole in the gnomon of a dial, 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.
  3. A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
  4. A swelling.
  5. One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
  6. One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.
  7. The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.
  8. The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
  9. The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
  10. The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, Public Domain

Wiktionary 
  1. (noun) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
  2. (noun) (Astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respetively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are ? and ?.
  3. (noun) The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.
  4. (noun) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, 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.
  5. (noun) (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
  6. (noun) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
  7. (noun) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
  8. (noun) 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.
  9. (noun) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
  10. (noun) (graphtheory) A vertex of a graph.
  11. (noun) (computing_theory) (context/computer networking) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network; a computer or other device attached to a network
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