Meaning

A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling..

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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.
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.
8. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

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